it is better to eat when one can, for one never knows when he will eat again. - Louis L'Amour

A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.

Neely grumbled. 'They [Indians] are a murdering lot of savages, and no mention of them in the Bible.'

'What has that to do with it?' John Sampson asked.

'If there's no mention of them,' Neely said, 'they are animals, not men.'

'I don't recall any mention of the English, either,' I said mildly.

He gave me a mean look, then changed the subject.

This is where she lives. Could you live here? You would starve. You would die in the cold. Women like that you leave alone, or speak to politely, very politely.