about four P.M.
But I do n't . You come right down to household pets -- I ruther have me a white rabbit or a canary bird than an alligator you could step on in the dark some night and get all bit up , and mebbe blood poison set in . '' `` I recollect same as if it was yesterday , '' began Uncle Abner quickly . `` We was coming up through northern Arizona one fall , with a bunch of longhorns and we make this here water hole about four P.M. -- or mebbe a mite after that or a little before ; but , anyway , I says to Jeff Bradley , ` Jeff , ' I says to him , ` it looks to me almighty like -- ' '' Sandy Sawtelle savagely demanded a cup of coffee , gulped it heroically , rose in a virtuous hurry , and at the door wondered loudly if he was leaving a bunch of rich millionaires that had nothing to do but loaf in their club all the afternoon and lie their heads off , or just a passell of lazy no-good cowhands that laid down on the job the minute the boss stepped off the place . Whereupon , it being felt that the rabid anecdotist had been sufficiently rebuked , we all went out to help the veterinary look at Adolph for twenty minutes more . Adolph is four years old and weighs one ton . He has a frowning and fearsome front and the spirit of a friendly puppy .