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Updated: May 2, 2025
We were abreast of the forlorn little shack of a dry-farmer, weathered and patched, set a dozen yards from the road and surrounded by hard-packed earth. Before the open door basked children and pigs and a few spiritless chickens. All the children ran to the door when we halted and called to someone within.
If Florence Grace Hallman and her bunch lands any settlers here, they'll be between us and Dry Lake; and they're dead welcome to squat on them dry pinnacles so long as we keep their stock from crossing our claims to get into the breaks. Savvy the burro?" "Yes-s but how'd yuh KNOW they're going to do all this? Mamma! I don't want to turn dry-farmer if I don't have to!" Andy's face clouded.
"A dry-farmer kin have six months of hard luck three times a year for four and five years, hand-runnin'. In fact, they ain't no limit to the time and the kind of things that kin happen to a dry-farmer." "But what could happen now?" Wallie asked, startled. "It's too clost to bed-time fer me to start in tellin' you," said Pinkey, drily. "You're too pessimistic, Pinkey.
A horse outfit grazing a small herd of horses during the summer months, and a dry-farmer with a couple of milch cows, who, while he plowed and planted and prayed for rain, was incidentally demonstrating the exact length of time that a human being could live on jack-rabbit and navy beans, were the only other users of the mountain range. Was it the hoax of some local humorist?
She had just come down from Burnt Basin and was not in too good a humor. Bowers, who was staying with Mullendore, came out of the wagon when he heard her and asked: "How was it lookin'?" "The spring was trampled to a bog," she said in an exasperated voice, "and the range is covered with bare spots where that dry-farmer has salted his cattle.
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