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"The people I was working for have a range in Tom Green County, Texas, and another one in Montana. They send their young steers north to mature good idea, too! but they are not cowmen like the ones we know. They made their money in the East in a patent medicine got scads of it, too. But that's no argument that they know anything about a cow.
It will be young Joseph that steers the canoe through the dangerous places, and carries the heaviest load over the portages, and leads the way on the long journeys. We were in a hurry to be off for an afternoon's fishing, three or four miles down the river, at the Ile Maligne. The island is well named, for it is the most perilous place on the river, and has a record of disaster and death.
"Oisin" was not given, but the word "oisanite" was, and the meaning of that the code stated to be "five hundred head prime steers." It was enough. The Interurban did not wish to accept the transportation of five hundred extremely ill steers, whose death was imminent. "Westcote, refuse consignment absolutely. Write particulars," he wired. Flannery showed the telegram to Mr.
Some day he would own the Alderwith pastures at his back and be grazing his own steers. His thoughts returned to Hannah, and he rose and proceeded to where a saddled horse was tied beside the road.
The ranch outfit had been at work for ten days previous to my arrival gathering the three-year-old steers and all dry and barren cows. On my return they had about eight thousand head of mixed stock under herd and two trail outfits were in readiness, so cutting them separate and culling them down, we started them, the cows for Dodge and the steers for Ogalalla, each thirty-five hundred strong.
I determined to use "registered" pure-bred bulls alone, and no others, to raise steers with, and was the first man to my knowledge to do so. Neighbours ridiculed the idea, saying that they would not get many calves, that they could not or would not "rustle" that is, they would not get about with the cows that they would need nursing and feeding and would not stand the climate.
She was at Pekin in the Boxer Rebellion! She's roped steers in Oklahoma! She's matched her embroidery silks to all the sunrise tints on the Himalayas! Just why in creation should she seem meek do you suppose to a to a twenty-five-dollar-a-week clerk like yourself?" "'A twenty-five-dollar-a-week clerk like myself?" the Younger Man fairly gasped.
The crows were hopping about the branches of a tree way out in the middle of the flat, flopping down from branch to branch to the grass, then rising hurriedly and circling. 'Dead beast there! said Mac. out of his Bushcraft. 'No dying, said Doc. Wild, with less Bush experience but more intellect. 'There's some steers of Job's out there somewhere, muttered Mac.
Some steers had just escaped from the yards, and the strikers had got hold of them, and there would be the chance of a scrap! They went out at the Ashland Avenue gate, and over in the direction of the "dump." There was a yell as soon as they were sighted, men and women rushing out of houses and saloons as they galloped by.
And this was indeed the case, for just at this moment there came to his side a young Greek, who acted as his first officer, and pointing away astern in the south-western board, said: "There is a man-of-war, sir, standing right in our wake hereaway." "You are right we are discovered, too, for he steers like a hawk on the wing about to dive for its prey."
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