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Updated: July 22, 2025
"You have certainly stated the situation much better than I could hope to." "I was only hoping you wouldn't see it." "I don't see it, and that's my whole trouble. I can only see the results. I can't say that this one or that one is to blame, for the thing seems to be in the very air." "I know just how you feel, Mack. That's where a skipper is hog-tied against taking any action.
Then came the avalanche of state and federal regulations, until to-day we find the railways hog-tied in a mass of rules and regulations. With the lawyers and the financiers on the inside and various state commissions on the outside, the railway manager has little chance. That is the trouble with the railways. Business cannot be conducted by law.
When he saw that she was really distressed, he tried to cheer her. "Now don't be discouraged," he said, as they started home in the late afternoon. "You can't expect to get me roped and hog-tied the very first day. There's lots of time, and you'll have to keep at it. When I was a kid learning to throw a rope, I used to practise on the skull of a steer that was nailed to a post.
"Reckon you've got that cougar chained in your cabin door?" queried Beasley, and there was a barely distinguishable shudder of his muscular frame. Also the pupils dilated in his hard brown eyes. "Tom ain't chained. An' I haven't no cabin, Beasley." "You mean to tell me that big brute stays in your camp without bein' hog-tied or corralled!" demanded Beasley. "Sure he does." "Beats me!
Just because you're old, and such a blamed fool you go around without a gun on yuh, I'm keepin' my hands off you. I call yuh a coward. You wouldn't a dared to come over here with a gun on yuh and talk the way you've done. You've got me hog-tied. You know it. And damn yuh, I'll fight yuh now with the law which is the only way a coward will fight.
"Oh, no; he held me up with a gun while his helpers pulled me off the bronco and hog-tied me, and then fell to discussing with the other two the advisability of knocking me on the head and dropping me into Lost River Canyon that's all.
The boys across the river watched a few minutes, when all recrossed to our assistance. "Time's too valuable to monkey with a mule to-day," said Priest, as he rode up; "skin off that harness." It was off at once, and we blindfolded and backed him up to the river bank; then taking a rope around his forelegs, we threw him, hog-tied him, and rolled him into the water.
It was Rafter who drawled out the words, and, as he spoke, he held a revolver leveled at the professor's head. "Better drop the varmint, perfuss," directed Pete, from the ground, "they've got us hog-tied and ready fer the brand." "By ginger!
It was while Mayor Maloney was announcing the roping contest and explaining that the man who "roped, throw'd, an' hog-tied" his steer in the least number of seconds, would be the winner, that the girl's thoughts turned to the cowpuncher who earlier in the day had so skilfully demonstrated his ability with the lariat. In vain her eyes sought the faces of the cowboys.
Often we hog-tied as many as a dozen, letting them lie outside all night and freeing them back into the herd in the morning. Even the day-herding was a constant fight, as scarcely an hour passed but some old resident would scorn the restraint imposed upon his liberties and deliberately make a break for freedom.
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