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To be next the very top to have his say in the running of a model cow-outfit and it should be a model outfit if he took charge, for he had ideas of his own about how these things should be done to be foreman, with the right to "hire and fire" at his own discretion He turned, flushed and bright-eyed, to Dill. "God knows why yuh cut me out for the job," he said in a rather astonished voice.
That don't sound to me like any forty-acre field; does it to you?" "As I said," responded Dill, "I arrived at the conclusion that he owns a good deal of land." "And I'll bet yuh the old skunk is going to start up a cow-outfit right under our noses though why the dickens the Double-Crank wasn't good enough for him gets me."
Andy, before he had been in town an hour, was in a mood to do violence. For that reason he kept his plans rigidly to himself. When someone asked him if he had quit the outfit, he had returned gruffly that the Flying U was not the only cow-outfit in the country, and let the questioner interpret it as he liked.
And I know one thing: when Brown had this outfit himself he was mighty jealous uh the range, and he didn't take none to the idea of anybody else shoving stock onto it more than naturally drifted on in the course uh the season. If he's going to start another cow-outfit, I'll bet yuh he's going to gobble land and that's what we better do, and do it sudden."
"But, if I was a millionaire, or if I had two hundred thousand dollars and to me they don't sound much different I'd sure start a cow-outfit right away immediately at once. But I wouldn't buy out nobody; I'd go right back and start like they did if they're real old-timers.
For to lie on one's back in the sun with one's hat pulled low, dreaming lazily and with minute detail the perfect supervision of a model cow-outfit from its very inception up through the buying of stock and the building of corrals and the breaking of horses to the final shipping of great trainloads of sleek beef, is one thing; to start out in reality to do all that, with the hundred little annoyances and hindrances which come not to one's dreaming in the sun, is something quite different.
As it was, he was rather dazed and a good deal inclined to wonder how Alexander P. Dill had ever managed to accumulate enough capital to start anything let alone a cow-outfit if he took on trust every man he met. He privately believed that Dill had taken a long chance, and that he should consider himself very lucky because he had accidentally picked a man who would not "steal him blind."
"We was short-handed, as the old man had begun to put up hay and work some of the stock in corrals for the winter, so we took our new brother on. His name was Ezekiel George Washington Scraggs tuneful number for a cow-outfit! and his name didn't come anywhere near doin' him justice at that.
It seemed to attack the animals wholly regardless of their size and strength; its victims including a large bull and a beef steer, as well as cows, yearlings, and gaunt, weak trail "doughgies," which had been brought in very late by a Texas cow-outfit for that year several herds were driven up from the overstocked, eaten-out, and drought-stricken ranges of the far south.
As we drove along buzzards and great hawks occasionally soared overhead. Now and then we passed lines of wild-looking, long-horned steers, and once we came on the grazing horses of a cow-outfit, just preparing to start northward over the trail to the fattening pasture.
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