midnight
`` Get it into your systems , boys , that we 've got to ride away around the Flying U . We ought to be able to build that fence , all right , without help from anybody . Till we do we 've got to hang and rattle , and keep that nester stock from getting past us . I 'll stand guard till midnight . '' A little more talk , and some bickering with Slim and Happy Jack , the two chronic kickers , served to knock together a fair working organization . Weary and Andy Green were informally chosen joint leaders , because Weary could be depended upon to furnish the mental ballast for Andy 's imagination . Patsy was told that he would have to cook for the outfit , since he was too fat to ride .