Why, it's the hottest thing that ever crossed the Staked Plains since the Apaches came down in---"
All these soldier police were mounted and armed, and their snapping black eyes were filled with hatred for Apaches.
In the arid wastes of Arizona and New Mexico the Apaches sought to make rain by carrying water from a certain spring and throwing it on a particular point high up on a rock; after that they imagined that the clouds would soon gather, and that rain would begin to fall.