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I don't want the folks to come home and find the whole bunch in the pen. It might look as if " "You don't want the folks to come home and find the whole ranch sheeped off, either, and the herders camping up in the white house, do yuh?" Pink inquired pointedly. "I kinda think," he added dryly, "those same herders will feel like going away around Flying U fences with their sheep.
Well, that's me, too, and has been for years, only not quite so bad; but then, Bill is plumb sheeped out and I ain't quite!" He laughed mirthlessly and filled a cigarette. "You know," he said, squinting his eyes down shrewdly, "that old feller ain't so durned crazy yet.
I couldn't quite lick the whole town, but I tried; and I certainly gave 'em a run for their money, while it lasted. If Bender don't date time from Jeff Creede's big drunk I miss my guess a mile. And you know, after I got over bein' fightin' drunk, I got cryin' drunk but I never did get drunk enough to tell my troubles, thank God! The fellers think I'm sore over bein' sheeped out.
By his side the sunburned swarthy giant who had taken him willy-nilly for a friend sat unmoved, his lip curled, not at the pity of it, but because they were sheep; and because, among the men who rushed about driving them with clubs and sacks, he saw more than one who had eaten at his table and then sheeped out his upper range.
You catch that, I reckon." Creede drooped his eyes significantly and smoked. "If it hadn't been for old Bill Johnson," he said, "we wouldn't have a live cow on our range to-day, we'd've been sheeped down that close. When he'd got his ammunition and all the bacon and coffee I could spare he sat down and told me how he worked it to move all them sheep last Spring.
Well, sir, I worked over one of them paisanos until he was a total wreck, and I took a shot at another hombre, too the one that couldn't savvy; but there was no use cavin' round about it I was jest naturally sheeped out. "It looked like I was busted, but I wouldn't admit it, and while I was studyin' on the matter along comes Jim himself and offers me five thousand dollars for my sheep.
Then we who had let them pass in pity were requited after the way of the borregueros we were sheeped out, down to the naked rocks, and the sheepmen went on, laughing insolently. Ay, que malo los borregueros, what devils they are; for hunger took the strength from our cows so that they could not suckle their calves, and in giving birth many mothers and their little ones died together.
"What wasn't sheeped over would be washed out. We've had luck. An' now I ain't worryin'," returned Dale. "Worryin'? Then it's the first I ever knowed you to do." "Man, I never had a job like this," protested the hunter. "Wal, thet's so." "Now, Roy, when old Al Auchincloss finds out about this deal, as he's bound to when you or the boys get back to Pine, he's goin' to roar."
There's plenty of feed out on The Rolls for Jim's sheep, but my cows have got to drink. We cowmen have been sheeped out of all the lower country down there, and here we are, crowded clear up against the rocks. You've stolen a march on us and of course you're entitled to some feed, but give us a chance. You've been sheeped out yourself, and you know what it feels like.
But that's not the point. The range is free. Suppose y'u had cattle and I had sheep. I'd feel as free to run my sheep anywhere as y'u were to ran your cattle." "Right. But what if you throwed your sheep round my range an' sheeped off the grass so my cattle would hev to move or starve?" "Shore I wouldn't throw my sheep round y'ur range," she declared, stoutly.
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