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Updated: May 15, 2025
I remembered that at the fall calf-branding Uncle Jake had expressed his approval of our cordon bleu in no measured terms. "You've noted," he said, "that a greaser jest naterally hates ter handle mares. He rides a horse, an' he's right. The best o' mares will kick. Now, Glory Anne can't help bein' a woman, but I swear she's bin mighty well broke.
Of the calves he had left with their mothers in the fall, scarce one remained; of the cows themselves he could find not half, and the calf-branding was becoming a grim joke among the men. "Eat hearty," they would sometimes banter one another. "We got to buckle down and work this afternoon. They's three calves milling around out there waiting to be branded!" "Aw, come off!
As mile after mile of smiling grass-land was covered by the sweep of the Double-Crank circles, the disaster pressed more painfully upon him. When the wagons had left the range the fall before, Billy had estimated roughly that eight or nine thousand head of Double-Crank stock wandered at will in the open. But with the gathering and the calf-branding he knew that the number had shrunk woefully.
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