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Kut-le halted his party and rode forward; Rhoda saw the dim figure rise hastily and after a short time Kut-le called back. "Come ahead!" The little camp was only an open space at the cañon edge, with a sheepskin shelter over a tiny fire. Beside the fire stood a sheep-herder, a swarthy figure wrapped from head to foot in sheepskins.
Miss Katie Peck had not served long in the restaurant before she was wooed and won by a man who had been a ranch cook, a sheep-herder, a bar-tender, a freight hand, and was then hauling poles for the government. During his necessary absences from home she, too, went out-of-doors. This he often discovered, and would beat her, and she would then also beat him.
As they entered the gateway of the Loring rancho, Corliss made as though to dismount. The Señora Loring touched his arm. He shrugged his shoulders; then gazed ahead at the peaceful habitation of the old sheep-herder. The Señora told the driver to tie the team and wait. Then she entered the house. Corliss gazed about the familiar room while she made coffee.
Pedro's brother knew a man who had trapped Bears, and the sheep-herder remembered that it is necessary to have the door quite light-tight rather than very strong, so they battened all with tar-paper outside. But Gringo was learning "pen-traps." He did not break the door that he did not see through, but he put one paw under and heaved it up when he had finished the bait.
"He's mine when we do find him, remember that," John DeWitt always said through his teeth at this point in the discussion. It was on the twelfth day of the hunt that the sheep-herder found them. They were cinching up the packs after the noon rest when he rode up on a burro. He was dust-coated and both he and the burro were panting. "I've seen her!
He swept the low hedge aside, charged into the mass of sheep that surged away from him with rushing sounds of feet and murmuring groans, struck down one, seized it, and turning away, he scrambled back up the mountains. The sheep-herder leaped to his feet, fired his gun, and the dog came running over the solid mass of sheep, barking loudly. But Jack was gone.
The sting of the cactus bit home in the darkness as its claws clutched at the riders winding their slow way through the chaparral. Gray day was dawning when they crossed the Creosote Flats and were seen by a sheep-herder at a distance. The sun was high in the heavens before they reached the defile which served as a gateway between the foothills and the range beyond.
He moved and killed by night. Pigs were his favorite food, and he had also killed a number of men. But Pedro's Grizzly was the most marvelous. "Hassayampa," as the sheep-herder was dubbed, came one night to Kellyan's hut. "I tell you he's still dere. He has keel me a t'ousand sheep. You telled me you keel heem; you haff not. He is beegare as dat tree. He eat only sheep much sheep.
And this is what we git for your gittin' red-headed about a ole Mexican sheep-herder. But, honest, Pete, you sure come clost to gittin' yours. Gary mebby wouldn't 'a' pulled on you but he'd 'a' sure trimmed you if Bailey hadn't stepped in." "He'd never put a hand on me," stated Pete. "You mean you'd 'a' plugged 'im?" "I'm meanin' I would." "But, hell, Pete, you ain't no killer!
"Have I got to ride a bucking bronco, or kill a sheep-herder or two or is it just another case of 'move on'?" He paused and smiled bitterly to himself, but Lucy was not in a mood to humor him in his misanthropy.
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