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It is known that they are CIRCULAR in character, and that though the wind on their outskirts often reaches a speed of 100 miles an hour, in the centre of the storm there is a space of complete calm not a calm of the SEA certainly, but a complete absence of wind. The skilled navigator, if he cannot escape the storm, steers right into the heart of it, and rests there.
The difference between a herd of steers and a battalion of soldiers, in the face of sudden danger, is only this: the steers break blindly for God knows where, and end piled up over a cut bank; soldiers stand steady listening for the word of command." If the O. C. handled the men with a light hand, the sergeant major did not. His tongue rasped them to the raw.
"That cannot be, my lord. As it is my duty to stay by the ship to the last, so it is your first duty to save your life for England. I need no aid, for the vessel steers well, and by the help of a rope round the tiller I can manage her alone. Farewell, my lord, if we are not to meet again on earth. A very few minutes will decide our fate." "Swimming will be of no use there, Osgod," Wulf said.
We were to draft them all next morning into separate pens cows and bullocks, steers and heifers, and so on. He expected to sell them all to a lot of farmers and small settlers that had taken up a new district lately and were very short of stock. 'You couldn't have come into a better market, young fellow, says the agent's man to me.
The killing of the steers and the collecting of the requisition began forthwith, and the Army dined. And still the ten graceless individualists soared along ahead and gathered in everything in sight. But General Kelly fixed us. He sent horsemen down each bank, warning farmers and townspeople against us. They did their work thoroughly, all right.
It was in the narrow cut between the two valleys. The leaders went down in a heap, and against the ridge made by their bodies the steers directly behind them crashed with an impact like two colliding trains! The lightning revealed from moment to moment the awful sight. The cattle behind pressed against those ahead. The bellowing beasts were smothered were crushed by the score!
He has a way with horses, hasn't he?" Benito grinned, "Now that Montrosa is wilder than a deer." Alaire rode into the herd with her foreman, while Dave settled his loop over a buckskin, preparatory to joining the cowboys. The giant herd milled and eddied, revolving like a vast pool of deep, swift water. The bulls were quarrelsome, the steers were stubborn, and the wet cows were distracted.
But I won't be an errand boy in a grocery store," he promised himself. But with the custom of looking only on the bright side of things, which is a fortunate habit of youth, he began to think of the good times he would have riding the horses on the plains, and of watching the cowboys as they roped the steers and branded them.
After all the bad horses and raw colts for miles around had been tamed I spent some days idling about my cottage and getting acquainted with it and with Septima. But within not many days I grew restive. I told the Villicus I wanted something to do. "Well," he said, "five steers have eluded one of my herd-gangs and no one can find them.
To Judith it was more reassuring than an oath. "It’s like dogs fighting over a picked bone; the meat’s all gone. The range is overworked; it needs a good, long rest." He turned towards Judith, speaking slowly. "What you have said is true. We’re friends before we’re partisans of either faction. I’m on my way to a round-up. There’s been an unexpected order to fill a beef contract—a thousand steers.
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