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Updated: June 3, 2025
Frank was a cattle-man between Sundays. "Along about this time an incident come off that I couldn't get much light on. A stranger come to town, an' was seen with the preacher. This stranger was a big man with an eye like blue ice, an' a beard of gold.
"He's a cattle-man!" cried Billy. "I seen his heels." "That's you!" said the discovered puncher, with approval. "You'll do. But I bet you can't tell me what we wearers of this badge have sworn to do this night." At this they craned their necks and glared at him. "We are sworn don't yu' jump, now, and give me away sworn to blow off three bootblacks to a dinner." "Ah, pshaw!"
They showered him with mock attentions, waiting on him with an exaggerated deference, and the pale, fat man, remembering the hideousness of some of their manifestations of a sense of humor, breathed hard and felt a falling-off of appetite. Costigan, the cattle-man, a strapping Irish giant, was clearing his throat with ominous sounds that suggested the tuning-up of a bass fiddle.
When the queer old wooden clock announced two we went to bed. I left quite early the next morning with my head full of Christmas plans. You may not know, but cattle-men and sheep-men cordially hate each other. Mr. Stewart is a cattle-man, and so I didn't mention my Christmas plans to him. I saved all the butter I could spare for the sheep-herders; they never have any.
But think it over, and let me impress on your mind that if you consent to make the race, you will have the support of every cattle-man in the country. Not only their influence and support, but in a selfish interest will their purses be at your command to help elect you.
Ross stated briefly, succinctly, what he had discovered; and as he talked other riders came up the hill and gathered closely around to listen in wordless silence in guilty silence, the ranger could not help believing. The sheriff, himself a cattle-man, heard Cavanagh without comment till he had ended with a gesture. "And there they are; I turn them over to you with vast relief.
"Howdy, boys?" called out Holderness, with a smile, which was like a gleam of light playing on a frozen lake. His amber eyes were steady, their gaze contracted into piercing yellow points. Dave studied the cattle-man with cool scorn, but refusing to speak to him, addressed his brother. "Snap, what do you mean by riding in here with this fellow?" "I'm Holderness's new foreman.
Both Rawhide Jones and Toothy had to ride with him to drive them out of the gulches and back to the herd. Conniston learned that day how a cattle-man can swear and why. He learned that a steer is not the easiest thing in the world to handle, that sometimes he is not content with fleeing from his natural enemy, but charges with lowered horns and froth-dripping mouth upon man and horse.
"Thunder!" said a cattle-man in a red jersey as he looked over the side. "What asylum did they let His Whiskers out of?" "Young feller," Salters began, standing up in the fore-rigging, "let me tell yeou 'fore we go any further that I've " The officer on the bridge took off his cap with immense politeness. "Excuse me," he said, "but I've asked for my reckoning.
The woman sang "Jesus Lover of my Soul" from memory in her poor little voice and that small but reverent congregation cow-boy, drummer, cattle-man, trainmen, and parson solemnly joined in. "It feels just like church," said the cow-boy gravely to the cattle-man. "Say I'm all broke up; let's go in the other car and try your flask ag'in." It was his unfailing resource for "onsettled feelin's."
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