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He saw the night scenes he had taken in town. He almost forgot that all this was his work, so smoothly did the story steal across his senses and beguile him into half believing it was true and not a fabric which he had built with careful planning and much toil. He saw the round-up scenes; the day-herd, the cutting-out and the branding, the beef-herd driven to the shipping cars.
"But we sure have got some dandy films in those boxes!" and he looked back on some laden burros that were following the cow ponies across a stretch of Arizona desert. "Well, all I've got to say," remarked the cowboy, the third member of the trio; "is that taking moving pictures is about as strenuous work as rounding up or branding cattle."
More than one big stock-man in Texas began his career by branding the mavericks, or wild unbranded and unclaimed heifers, found in the river timber. As an instance of the manner in which they worked up a herd, it is related of a successful stock-man that he started with a solitary steer, which he turned loose on the prairie, and the first year he branded forty calves!...
This offense, in the days of Roman rule, was punishable by condemnation to labor in the mines, or by branding and transportation to an oasis of the desert. Timokles, innocent of the crime charged upon him, having been at home in Alexandria during the time when he was accused of having been abroad on the evil errand, was dragged away to exile, for was he not a Christian?
It was the same with almost everything the Colonel wanted to purchase; everything had to be made especially for him after his own description handcuffs, collars and belts, chains, branding irons, a block and fall, muzzles of different sizes, corkscrew picket-pins for holding the turn of a rope, and a nondescript article shaped like a huge pair of tongs, for which I feel sure there is no name in any trade, but which looked to be a handy implement for clamping the jaws of a beast.
It is the conclusions drawn from it by the followers of Christ that are disputed. "Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Greeks foolishness," still raises opposition and kindles hostility. The name of Pilate is inserted not with the view of branding him with infamy, but in order to fix the date of the crucifixion of Jesus.
"I was over helping hold old Scotty in his bed, the other day," he said irrelevantly. "He was crazy out of his head. He kept yelling that the Lorrigans were stealing his stock. He kept saying that a few more marks with a straight branding iron would turn his Eleven into an NL, ANL, DNL, LNL any one of the Devil's Tooth brands. Crazy with fever, he was."
Mahomet mounted a milk-white nagah, when he ascended to paradise. The camels have all public and private marks, the former for their country, and the latter for their owner, and, strange enough, the public mark of the Ghadames camels is the English broad R. So when a camel is stolen, a man claims his camel by his mark. The marking is done by branding with a hot iron.
"Yes, I know, he waded the creek vone time und you has had cold feet effer since." Poor fellow, I felt sorry for him. I had cold feet myself just then, and I was powerfully anxious to warm them by my own fire where a pair of calm blue eyes would reassure me. I didn't get to see the branding that was to have taken place on the range that day.
Why in the world didn't you stick your brand on at the same time?" Billy Louise was losing patience with his greenness. "I didn't have my branding iron with me," Charlie answered humbly. "I have done that before, when I bought those other cows and calves. "You'd better pack your iron, next time," she retorted. "If you can't get a little bunch of calves ten miles without losing them "
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