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"Twenty miles," she said thoughtfully; "twenty miles." And turned the marks under. Sun-baked, deep of rut and straight as the flight of a crow, lay the road that led northeast from the swift, shoally ford of the Missouri to the cattle-camp at Clark's.
A certain expression in Lounsbury's eyes, a certain square set to his jaw the very cues that guided the cattle-camp made him cautious. "Look a-here," he said to Lounsbury, assuming a conciliatory manner. "Let's talk as one gent to another. These ladies is your friends. So far, so good. But I has my rights, and I can prove that I slep' on this quarter-section three times and "
Indignation meetings were held in every little townlet and cattle-camp on the Karoo. The old Dutch spirit was up the spirit of the men who cut the dykes. Rebellion was useless. But a vast untenanted land stretched to the north of them.
After an evening of ghost stories, a creaking door is enough to set teeth chattering; and after an evening of cattle-yarns, told in a cattle camp, a snapping twig is enough to set hair lifting; and just as the most fitting place for ghost stories is an old ruined castle, full of eerie noises, so there is no place more suited to cattle-camp yarns than a cattle camp.
A camp-horse is a horse which has been especially trained for cutting out cattle on a cattle-camp. Working on the face of the camp means taking cattle which have been cut out from the man who is doing this particular job, and driving them away to the second mob. The Branded Warragul By noon the cattle were in two mobs, clean-skins and branded.
And now, after hauling the reader pretty well all over Australia from mountain-station to out-back holding, from cattle-camp to buffalo run we must ask him to take a seat in the Supreme Court at Sydney, to hear the trial of the "great Grant Will Case." Gavan Blake had made no effort towards compromise. He knew the risk he was running, but he had determined to see it through.
He was headed for the cattle-camp, the lines over a four-in-hand hitched to three empty wagons, a third team tied to the tailboard of the hindmost box. On the arrival of the saloon gang, the pilot had left his steamboat in the hands of his two helpers and made his way to Shanty Town.
Naturally Dan's cattle-tussle reminded him of other tussles with ringing cattle; then the cattle-camp suggesting other cattle-camp yarns, he settled down to reminiscences until he had us all cold thrills and skin-creeps, although we were gathered around a blazing fire. Tale after tale he told of stampedes and of weaners piling up against fences.
As I write, there rises a vision of a cattle-camp on an open plain, the blue sky overhead, the long grass rustling below, the great mob of parti-coloured cattle eddying restlessly about, thrusting at each other with their horns; and in among the sullen half-savage animals go the light, wiry stock-riders, horse and man working together, watchful, quick, and resolute.
Next, the well was dug; and the barn built as a lean-to, for the Lancasters knew little, but had heard much, about the blizzards of the territory. Then, while the elder girl covered the slanting rafters over Ben and Betty's stall, the section-boss hauled a scanty stock of hay and provisions from Clark's, a cattle-camp and settlement to the northeast.
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