count-then

Updated: May 6, 2025

First one and two-then there would be three, four, five, as many as Buddy could count-then the whole herd would be lying down. Buddy loved the camp-fires. The cowboys would sit around the one where his father and mother sat mother with Dulcie in her arms and they would smoke and tell stories, until mother told him it was time little boys were in bed.

B. M. Bower - Cow-Country