“Den I wouldn’t have got no sleep.”
“Suppose I had hurt the horse?”
“Then I’d have clawed your eyes out.”
“You think a good deal of that horse, don’t you?”
“Course I does.”
“Then you stick close to him to-morrow.”
“You bet I will. I’m goin’ to ride him.”
“Well, if you see a new hostler hanging around him on the track, you ask him if he doesn’t think he’s a dude. If he says he was a dude yesterday you go on about your business and let him alone. Understand?”
“All right. Guess I know who de new man’ll be.”
“Well, don’t you open your mouth about what has taken place here to-night, and keep equally still about to-morrow’s work.”