I told him yes.

"How do you like it?"

I expected to like it very much.

"How does the climate strike you?

I thought the climate was fine.

"Makes a man thirsty though."

This was the sub-current which the Virginian plainly looked for.
But he, like Steve, addressed himself to me.

"Yes," he put in, "thirsty while a man's soft yet. You'll
harden."

"I guess you'll find it a drier country than you were given to
expect," said Steve.

"If your habits have been frequent that way," said the Virginian.

"There's parts of Wyoming," pursued Steve, "where you'll go hours
and hours before you'll see a drop of wetness."

"And if yu' keep a-thinkin' about it," said the Virginian, "it'll
seem like days and days."