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Updated: May 23, 2025
"Walker had talked to me about going in with him on his sheep-ranch, under the impression, I suppose, that I had money to invest. Well, I hadn't any, as you know, but I got the notion that Walker might set me up with a flock of sheep, like they do in this country, to take care of on shares.
They may sheep-ranch, too, for all I know, no, that's in Old Virginia. The trouble is that the Virginias, otherwise irreproachable, are not paying fields for such enterprises. They say that one is a sure thing in California, and the other is a sure thing in Colorado. They give you the figures." Staniford lit another cigar. "But why shouldn't you stay where you are, Staniford?
"H. Ogden gets up and fixes his necktie. He says no more after they have taken the money off of him. "'A well-greased idea, says the sheriff captain, admiring, 'to slip off down here and buy a little sheep-ranch where the hand of man is seldom heard. It was the slickest hide-out I ever see, says the captain.
In short, there were modern women, and rich women, in Santa Paloma, as these things unmistakably indicated. Where sixty years ago there had been but a lonely outpost on a Spanish sheep-ranch, and where thirty years after that there was only a "general store" at a crossroads, now every luxury in the world might be had for the asking.
He rigged up a rough jaquima with the rope and rode barebacked in fifteen minutes over the three miles that lay between him and the Sheep-ranch, giving vent all the way to his pent-up feelings in cruel abuse of that Horse. Of course it did not do any good, and he knew that, but he considered it was heaps of satisfaction.
I need a rest, and I can save up until I get enough to pay my fare to Texarkana, where my widowed mother lives. If Black Bill, I goes on, looking significantly at Ogden, 'was to have come down this way say, a month ago and bought a little sheep-ranch and "'Stop, says Ogden, getting out of his chair and looking pretty vicious. 'Do you mean to insinuate "'Nothing, says I; 'no insinuations.
Plans were made for an abundance of dry fodder to be fed with the lush silage during the coming lean months. Bud Lee broke his string of horses, and with Tommy Burkitt and one other dependable man began perfecting their education, with an eye turned toward a profitable sale in January. Quinnion, perforce, was left undisturbed upon the sheep-ranch whither Emmet Sawyer had followed him.
Pleasant dreams to you," he said, and, click, the connection was broken. Two weeks later Billington Rand resigned from the Kenesaw Bank and went West, where he is now leading the simple life on a sheep-ranch. His resignation was accepted with regret, and the board of directors, as a special mark of their liking, voted him a gift of $2500 for faithful services.
Dan Treu and the coroner, who was also the local baker, started immediately for the sheep-ranch, and Dr. Harpe accompanied them. "Ess looked about 'all in," she said in explanation. They found the girl and the Dago Duke waiting by the fire which he had built outside the cabin.
That's mighty good of Uncle Cal to do that. "'I'm all undecided, says Marilla, 'between a piano and an organ. A parlour organ is nice. "'Either of 'em, says I, 'is first-class for mitigating the lack of noise around a sheep-ranch.
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