"Yes. How they going to get the animals across so they can feed on this side?"
For a moment no one answered, then Yellin' Kid replied:
"Why, they'll just naturally haze 'em over; that's all."
"You mean drive 'em through the creek?" asked Bud.
"Sure."
"The water's too deep."
"Maybe there's a ford," suggested Kid.
Bud shook his head.
"I tried to find one for my horse the other day," he said. "I thought I had but it was a quicksand and I was glad enough to get out without being stuck. There's no ford now for miles up and down the Creek from here—that is, none that I know of, especially not since high water."
For the level of Spur Creek had risen in the last few days, since the professor crossed, caused, it was learned later, by the diversion into the creek of a larger stream by some irrigation plan company further north.