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Updated: May 20, 2025
It had a famous bar, to which rode the sheep-herders, the cowboys, the ranchers, the dry-farmers of the surrounding country yes, and sometimes, thirstiest of all, the workmen from more distant oil-fields, a dangerous crew. Millings at that time had not yielded to the generally increasing "dryness" of the West.
Deal 'em out, amigo; state your case once more, so we can take a good, square look at these dry-farmers." "Yeah go ahead and tell us what's bustin' the buttons off your vest," Cal Emmett invited. "What's the use?" Andy argued. "You'd all just raise up on your hind legs and holler your heads off. You wouldn't DO anything about it not if you knew it was the truth!"
They gave away to the dry-farmers in the vicinity the supplies and halves of mutton she furnished them. In the lambing season they left the lambs whose mothers refused to own them to die when a little extra effort would have saved them. When stragglers split off from the herd they made no great attempt to recover them.
Of course, I can't say anything about us buying out your claims that's fraud, according to Hoyle; but you ain't simple-minded you know your land won't be begging for a buyer, in case you should ever want to sell. "There's another thing. This will not only head off the dry-farmers from overstocking what little range is left it'll make a dead-line for sheep, too.
"I wasn't paying much attention, with the Kid yelling his head off and old Silver gaping like a sick turkey, and all. What was it about them dryfarmers?" "He said," piped Pink, "that he'd got next to a scheme to bring a big bunch of dry-farmers in on this bench up here, with stock that they'd turn loose on the range. That's what he said. He claims the agent wanted him to go in on it." "Mamma!"
"I'll take a chance, anyway but the Lord help you, Andy if you can't produce proof when the time comes." "Say, Andy, where's them dry-farmers?" Big Medicine inquired at the top of his voice when the Happy Family had reached the biscuit-and-syrup stage of supper that evening.
We've been fooling around, just putting in our time and drawing wages, when we could be owning our own grazing land by now and shipping our own cattle, if we had enough sense to last us overnight. "A-course, I ain't crazy about turning nester, myself but we've let things slide till we've got to come through or get outa the game. It's a fact, boys, about them dry-farmers coming in on us.
"Weary, if them dry-farmers come flockin' in on us while this bunch stands around callin' me a liar, I " He did not attempt to finish the sentence; but Weary, staring curiously at Andy's profile, saw a quivering of the muscles around his lips and felt a responsive thrill of sympathy and belief that rose above his long training in caution.
Lines were deeper drawn, and the kind old eyes were a shade more sunken. "What's that amount to?" grumbled the Old Man, looking from one to the other under his graying eye brows. "You can't stop them dry-farmers from taking the country. Yuh might as well try to dip the Missouri dry with a bucket. They'll flood the country with stock "
"It's the train with the dry-farmers," Andy informed her with a glance at the nearing smoke-smudge. "Is it? We aren't any too soon then, are we? I left Son at home and he threatened to run away and live with you boys. I almost wish I'd brought him along. He's been perfectly awful. So have the men Claude hired to take your places, if you want to know, boys.
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