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Then he remembered why they were being kept so close to the ranch, and he grew bored again. "What if Luck pulled in before we got back, and wanted us to start work on another picture?" he asked, discouraging the idea reluctantly. Pink had himself been listening to the call of the wide spaces, and the mere mention of roundup had a thrill for him.
Pan saddled up the horse indicated, and found him the best he had ever mounted. That experience led to his acquaintance with Blowy. He was a ceaseless talker, hence his name, but beloved by all the outfit. Pan learned something from every cowboy he met and it was not all for the best. That roundup was Pan's real introduction to the raw range.
Why, I've been shot right through here, by cripes" Big Medicine laid an impressive finger-tip on the top button of his trousers "and it come out back here" he whirled and showed his thumb against the small of his back "and I never laid off but that day and part uh the next. I was sore," he admitted, goggling Happy Jack earnestly, "but I kep' a-goin'. I was right in fall roundup, an' I had to.
"Yes," Gregson, the Member of Parliament, continued, "if I had my way I'd muster every mob of Chinamen in Australia, I'd have one thundering big roundup, and into the Pacific and the Indian Sea they'd go, to the crack of a stock-whip or of something more convincing." The Hon.
Quite naturally he included Lucy in the little circle of beloved ones Lucy, whom he had deserted for the open range, for pitching horses and running steers, for the dust and turmoil of the roundup, for the long day ride and the lonely night watch, for the gaming table, the bottle, the gun for all that made life so thrilling to the American cowboy.
You got to Laramie, all right, but he didn't tell father in time to make a roundup back in the foothills. They're DANCING, mother!" "Well, I suppose We're due for an outbreak," sighed mother. "Colorou says he can't hold his young men off when some of the tribe have been killed. He himself doesn't countenance the stealing and the occasional killing of white men.
Happy Jack says I'm a girl long as I wear lace nighties, and I ain't a girl. Am I, Daddy Chip?" "I should say not!" Chip testified emphatically, and carried the iron bar to the forge for further heating. "I'm going on roundup too, tomorrow afternoon." The Kid's conception of time was extremely sketchy and had no connection whatever with the calendar.
"We don't use real money," he added. "There's very little coin or currency in southern Utah. Most of the Gentiles lately come in have money, and some of us Mormons have a bag or two of gold, but scarcely any of it gets into circulation. We use these checks, which go from man to man sometimes for six months. The roundup of a check means sheep, cattle, horses, grain, merchandise or labor.
He told himself it was the want of a smoke that made him uncomfortable, and he planned a hurried trip to Hardup, if the weather held good for another day, when he would lay in a supply of tobacco and papers that would last till roundup. This running out every two or three weeks, and living in hell till you got more, was plumb wearisome and unnecessary.
"Oh, I was just laughing at the things I see, Luck," returned the younger man with airy offense, his eyes on the printed sheet. "Meaning for instance?" "Just human nature. Any law against laughing?" Cullison turned his back on him. "See you on Thursday if that's soon enough, boys." "All the time you want, Luck. Let mine go till after the roundup if you'd rather," Mackenzie suggested.
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