"He thought it did," said Terry fervently. "Said it was the bravest, coolest-headed, cunningest piece of work he'd ever seen done. Perhaps you'll tell me some of the other things--the things you count big?"
"Oh, I ain't done nothing much, come to think of it. All pretty simple, they looked to me, when I was doing them. Besides, I ain't much of a hand at talk!"
"Ah," said Terry, "you'd talk well enough to suit me, sheriff!"
The sheriff had found a listener after his own heart.
"They ain't nothing but a campfire that gives a good light to see a story by--the kind of stories I got to tell," he declared. "Some of these days I'll take you along with me on a trail, son, if you'd like--and most like I'll talk your arm off at night beside the fire. Like to come?"
"Like to?" cried Terry. "I'd
