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The commissary was stocked, three extra men were picked up, and the herd started northward over the new Ogalalla trail. A week later it crossed the Kansas Pacific Railroad, when Joel left the herd, returning to their local station. A haying outfit was engaged, placed under the direction of Manly, and after spending a few days at headquarters, the young cowman returned to the railroad.
You see, Nicholas Caunter, the cowman, only got interested in his master's sister when he found she was terrible interested in him. He was very good looking and a simple, charming sort of a man unconscious of his fine appearance; and there's no doubt that Mary Jane fell in love with him a week after he came to Hartland.
Some of 'em fall off cliffs; some seem to have broke their legs. Some bogged down. Some look like to have just laid down and died." "Well, if they're weak from loss of feed, isn't that natural?" asked Bob. "Wall," said the old cowman, "in the first place, they're pore, but they ain't by no means weak. But the strange part is that these yere accidents always happens to Wright's cattle."
They belonged to a period in the development of our common country, dating from a day when cattle were the corner-stone of one fourth of our national domain. They and their kind were our pioneers, our empire builders; for when a cowman pushed into some primal valley and possessed it with his herd, his ranch became an outpost on our frontier.
I said he looked like something else, being dressed in an uproarious check suit of clothes that would instantly of collected a crowd in most city streets. But Sandy says that's all right; he's a regler cowman and had to wear these startling garments for a disguise to get him safe out of Idaho.
Try as they would, Alex and the oiler could get no more speed out of the low-geared machine, and with alarm Alex saw the runner once more drawing near. The second man they had outdistanced. Closer the cowman came. "Stop!" he shouted. "Stop! You may as well! I've got you!"
I was dressing the animal to take it to my camp. Because I had mistaken it for a deer was no reason why I should leave it to the coyotes." "What business you got hunting deer out of season?" questioned Knowles. "Pardon me, but are you the game warden?" asked Ashton, with a supercilious smile. "Never you mind about that," rejoined the cowman. "Just you answer my question."
"Please, sir, the bull ha' ripped 'em!" I hurried on, and soon saw that it was no laughing matter, for I found poor E. in a terrible plight of rags and tatters, sitting in a cart-shed in some outlying buildings, on a roller. The cowman was standing by holding a Jersey bull. The story was soon told. The cowman, having to go into the yard, had asked E. to hold the bull a minute.
Frank, I believe that's Old Hank Coombs hollering!" exclaimed the excited Bob. "Hello! down there, air ye all safe?" came a hail; and looking up the two boys on the shelf saw the grizzled head of the old cowman thrust into view. After all, it was not a very great task, getting the two saddle boys up from the friendly shelf.
The cowman who finds a maverick promptly puts his own brand on it and it belongs to him. The safety of the system is in choosing a brand that cannot be easily altered, and which will not be easily confounded with the brand of another.
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