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"I don't think it matters so much where we light, it's what we do when we get there," said Bud to Smoky, his horse, one day as they stopped where two roads forked at the base of a great, outstanding peak that was but the point of a mountain range. "This trail straddles the butte and takes on up two different valleys. It's all cow-country so what do yuh say, Smoke?
As they galloped away, leading Mose's worn pony, Delmar continued: "You're too young to start in as a killer. You've got somebody back in the States who thinks you're out here making a man of yourself, and I like you too well to see you done up by these dirty cow-country lawyers. I'm going to quit the country myself after this fall shipment, and I want you to come down my way some time.
"Yuh been here a month, and you ain't said a damn word about where you come from or anything further back than throwin' and tyin' that critter. You said cow-country, and that has had to do some folks that might be curious. Well, she's a tearin' big place cow-country.
If you want to use him, and if you can hold up to that little sample of roping yuh gave us, I'll pay yuh sixty a month. And that's partly for doing what you're told," he added with a quick look into Bud's eyes. "You didn't say where you're from " "I was born and raised in cow-country, and nobody's looking for me," Bud informed him over his shoulder while he remounted, and let it go at that.
There again a thickly timbered spur of the mountains ran down into the plain on each side of a deeply cleft cañon from which Lonesome Pete told them that Indian Creek issued, and in which were the main corrals and the range house of the Half Moon. "Which is sure the finest up-an'-down cow-country I ever see," he added, by way of rounding off his information.
I never yet lived in a cow-country where there wasn't more or less talk of rustling. You don't want to take gossip like that too seriously. Anything more?" Billy Louise glanced at him surreptitiously and looked away again. Then she tried to go on as casually as she had begun. "Well, there's something about the Cove. I don't believe Marthy's happy.
I'll go at the future man fashion. And," he added with a slight flare of the nostrils, "I'll start in the morning." "And is it to make tunes for other folks to play?" Bob Birnie asked after a silence, covertly eyeing him. "No, sir. There's more money in cattle. I'll make my stake in the cow-country, same as you've done." He looked up and grinned a little.
She was raised in civilization, and she has simply made the best of pioneering all her married life. I was born and raised in cow-country and I love it. As I said before, you are the SIMPLEST creature! Would you really bring a father and mother a honeymoon trail especially when the bride didn't want them, and they would much rather stay home?"
In the cow-country, and elsewhere on the wild borderland between savagery and civilization, men go quite as often by nicknames as by those to which they are lawfully entitled. Half the cowboys and hunters of my acquaintance are known by names entirely unconnected with those they inherited or received when they were christened.
It was the old shame of the sheepman, the shame which comes to the social outcast, and burns upon the cheek of the dishonored bastard, but which is seared deepest into the heart of the friendless herder, the Ishmaelite of the cow-country, whose hand is against every man and every man's against him.
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