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"It is stealing cattle." "How stealin' them?" demanded the Sheriff truculenty. "Changing the brand," Hollis informed him. He related how Ace and Weary had come upon the prisoner while the latter was engaged in changing his brand to the Circle Cross. "They see him brandin'?" questioned the sheriff when Hollis had concluded.
"This yere cattle business ain't what it used to be; no more is cow-punchers. Things is gettin' effete. These day it's a case of chutes an' brandin' pens an' wire fences an' ten-mile pastures, an' thar's so little ropin' that a boy don't have practice enough to know how to catch his pony. "In the times I'm dreamin' of all this is different.
"Do you mean that we have a few left?" and he laughed uneasily. "Oh, there's more'n a few," said Snake. "But by evidence Kid means we saw where they'd been blurrin' the brand the Diamond X brand!" "Oh, they're doing that; are they?" asked Bud, sharply. "Yes, we found th' ashes of two or three brandin' fires," went on Yellin' Kid, "an' we picked up th' broken handle of a brandin' iron.
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