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Updated: June 14, 2025
We would have traded the whole store for anything that the Indians wanted, to get rid of them. Sourdough, who belonged to the Scotty Phillips outfit over on the Indian lands, had ridden straight on to do night-herd duty. Every cowpuncher, it seemed, must play at least one trick on the tenderfeet. Then one day a handsomely built young buck, straight as an arrow, walked into the print shop.
The prairie around them was alive with bony horses and hungry-looking dogs. It was the impatient yelping of the dogs about the kettles rather than any sounds from the soft-footed Indians which we heard. The cowboy threw his cigarette on the floor, stamped on it with a jingle of spurs, and drawled, "Guess I'll be percolatin' got to ride night-herd." Ma Wagor grabbed him by his wide belt.
They regretted that they could not visit him, but they would be pleased to see him. They gave as an excuse for not calling that they were driving quite a herd of cattle, and the corrals at this little ranch were unsafe for the number they had, so that they were compelled to hold outside or night-herd.
The boys had not yet returned when our guard was called, but did so shortly afterward, one of them hunting me up on night-herd. "Well," said he, turning his horse and circling with me, "we caught onto everything that was adrift. The Rebel and Sponsilier were both in town, in charge of two deputies.
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