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"What was he like?" "He was a stupid old German. I always thought he was a sort of a natural." "Yes?" Average Jones peered out of the window. "Is this the man, coming up the street?" "It surely is," said the old lady. "Now, Mister Jones, if he commences his blaring and blatting and ". "There'll be no more music, ma'am," promised the young man, laughing, as she went out to answer the door-bell.
Far to the north and to the east and west ran the lines of other great ranches, where sheep were handled in great, blatting bands and yielded a fortune in wool. There were hills where Selmer cattle were wild as deer cattle that never heard the whistle of a locomotive until they were trailed down to the railroad to market. These made the money for Selmer and his Company.
The spindling tops of the second-growth forest pointed against the pale blue of a stainless sky, and through that clear air the blatting of the most distant sheep sounded close, mingled with the light clangour of the bells. But the perfect peace was broken rudely now by the form of a horseman looming black and large against the eastern sky.
A widely scattered bunch of range cows will graze placidly for hours, and suddenly every head will be raised and every cow gaze off in the same direction. Coyotes catch all finely shaded inflections and interpret them as unerringly as a man notes the difference between a bawling cow and a blatting sheep.
She started it, but the back wheels spun merrily round and round, without traction. She did not make one inch. When she again killed the blatting motor, she let it stay dead. She peered at her father. He was not a father, just now, but a passenger trying not to irritate the driver. He smiled in a waxy way, and said, "Hard luck! Well, you did the best you could.
Immediately they were greeted by the whirr of wheels, the chatter of many herders, and the blatting of sheep. Mr. Clark came forward. "Well, Don," he said, "this is quite a sight, isn't it?" "I should say it was! I had no idea shearing was done this way. It is just the way they clip horses or cut my hair." His father smiled. "Yes, it is done on the same principle. Let us watch this man here.
"Wait 'till yuh burn Lazy Eights on wriggling, blatting calves for two or three hours at a stretch before yuh talk about the joys uh branding." Park rubbed eloquently his aching biceps. At dusk Thurston crept into his blankets, feeling that he would like the night to be at least thirty six hours long.
In the midst of these more diffident invitations, the golden doors of the ballroom opened with a blatting of trumpets, and a circus parade rolled in. It was composed of the Zenith brokers, dressed as cowpunchers, bareback riders, Japanese jugglers. At the head was big Warren Whitby, in the bearskin and gold-and-crimson coat of a drum-major.
Outside, the sheep were blatting stridently their demand for breakfast. The herder bolted coffee and coarse food until he was filled, and went away to his dreary day's work, telling Ford to make himself at home, and flinging back a hope of further triumphs in pinochle, that night.
From away to the west, borne on the wind which swept steadily down the coulee, came that faint, humming sing-song, which can be made only by a herd of a thousand or more sheep, all blatting in different keys or by a distant band playing monotonously upon the middle octave of their varied instruments. "Slim's right, by gracious! It's sheep, sure as yuh live."
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