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Sir In answer to your note of the 4th instant, I beg leave to state, that , an apprentice belonging to , was brought before me by Mr. , his late overseer, charged upon oath with continual neglect of duty and disobedience of orders as cattle-man, and also for stealing milk was convicted, and sentenced to receive twenty stripes.

I've been down Magdalena way an' heerd of Al.... Reckon you're goin' a-visitin'?" "It's to be home for us." "Shore thet's fine. The West needs girls.... Yes, I've heerd of Al. An old Arizona cattle-man in a sheep country! Thet's bad.... Now I'm wonderin' if I'd drift down there an' ask him for a job ridin' for him would I get it?"

"Lord love you," said the burly cattle-man, roaring with infectious laughter, "he wont bring me nothin'. One of us will sit up anyway and tell him it's for you. You've got to hustle to bed right away because he may be here any time now." Then came one of those spectacles which we sometimes meet once or twice in a lifetime.

He had a twinkling face, all circles and pouches, but it grew graver as he spoke to the postmistress. He was Major Atkins, formerly a famous cavalry officer, but since his retirement a cattle-man whose herds grazed to the pan-handle of Texas.

Fresno puffed at his little pipe without remarking at this. "Well, who wants to go and meet him?" queried Jack. "Won't you?" asked his sister. "I can't. I've just got word from the Eleven X that I'm wanted. The foreman is hurt. I may not be back for some time." "Nigger Mike met me," observed Fresno, darkly. "Then Nigger Mike for Speed," laughed the cattle-man.

The old cattle-man who had been the hero of his boyhood, who had taught him to shoot and ride and swim, who had been so vital and so quick and keen of eye blind? "What happened to him?" asked Packard presently. "Suppose you ask him," she retorted. "If you know him so well. He is still with the outfit. A man named Blenham is the foreman now. He's old Packard's right-hand bower, you know."

It touched on chances of gigantic wealth flung before eyes that could not see, or missed by the merest accident of time and travel; and through the mad shift of things, sometimes on horseback, more often afoot, now rich, now poor, in and out, and back and forth, deck-hand, train-hand, contractor, boarding-house keeper, journalist, engineer, drummer, real-estate agent, politician, dead-beat, rum-seller, mine-owner, speculator, cattle-man, or tramp, moved Harvey Cheyne, alert and quiet, seeking his own ends, and, so he said, the glory and advancement of his country.

The cattle-man proffered Sundown tobacco and papers. They smoked and gazed at the stars. "Said your friend was a college man. What was his name?" queried Corliss, turning to glance at Sundown. "Well, his real name was Billy Corliss, but I called him jest Bill." "Corliss! When did you lose track of him?" "In that wreck, 'bout a year ago. We was ridin' a fast freight goin' west.

If, on account of money matters, one has been driven to come over to America in the hope of borrowing money, the awkwardness of how to go about it naturally makes one gloomy and preoccupied. Had there been broad fields of turnips to walk in and Holstein cattle to punch in the ribs, one might have managed to borrow it in the course of gentlemanly intercourse, as from one cattle-man to another.

A year seldom passed without the shippers having heavy losses. The sailors told that a blackhorned Bogieside ox, belonging to Mr Hay, swam for several miles after the ship. I have made inquiry of the cattle-man as to the scene in the hold of a steamer in a storm amongst the cattle.