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Updated: May 3, 2025
"I say he's lyin'," observed a squatter, whom Thomas Ransom had discovered ear-marking an unbranded calf. "Smoky knows that Pap done it," remarked another. This bolt went home. Smoky's face during the preceding five minutes had been worth studying.
He spent a lot of time time that Dad considered should have been employed cutting burr or digging potatoes in ear-marking bears and bandicoots, and catching goannas and letting them go without their tails, or coupled in pairs with pieces of greenhide. The paddock was full of goannas in harness and slit-eared bears. THEY belonged to Joe.
The rebranding through a wet blanket he knew and could prove; the ear-marking of an unbranded calf until it could be weaned he understood; the paring of hoofs to prevent travelling he could tell as far as he could see; the crafty alteration of similar brands as when a Mexican changed Johnson's Lazy Y to a Dumb-bell Bar he saw through at a glance.
I remember a New England movement looking toward small brass tags to be hung from the ear. Inextinguishable laughter followed the spread of this doctrine through Arizona. Imagine a puncher descending to examine politely the ear-tags of wild cattle on the open range or in a round-up. But, as I have intimated, even the inevitable branding and ear-marking are not so painful as one might suppose.
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