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Updated: May 13, 2025
"Go get those horses, Lee," said Trevors, ignoring her. Again she spoke to Lee, saying crisply: "What horses is he talking about?" With his deep gravity at its deepest, Bud Lee answered: "All L-S stock. The eleven Red Duke three-year-olds; the two Robert the Devil colts; Brown Babe's filly, Comet " "All mine, every running hoof of 'em," she said, cutting in.
Still, signs an' omens in what Doc Peets would term their 'occultisms, I passes up. I wouldn't live in them apprehensions that beleaguers Boggs for a full herd of three-year-olds. "Which I'll never forget them eloocidations beright onfolds on Boggs one evenin' about the mournin' an' the howlin' of some hound-dogs that's been sendin' thrills through Boggs.
Everything is twice as large, measured on a three-year-olds three-foot scale as on a thirty-year-olds six-foot scale; but age magnifies and aggravates persons out of due proportion.
Just so a steer looks nice, it's hard for the old man to turn one back. I've seen him receiving three-year-olds, when one fourth of the cattle passed on were short twos.
"'Now you're a couple of fine three-year-olds! breaks in Jack Moore. 'Yere we be, all onbuckled an'fraternal, an' Enright on the brink of a love romance by the ardent requests of Nell, an' you two longhorns has to come prancin' out an' go pawin' for trouble. You know mighty well, Texas, that Boggs is your friend an' the last gent to go harassin' you with contoomely.
The race was open to three-year-olds and upward, and run over a distance two miles and a half. The distance kept out the sprinters it also, now and again, played hob with racing idols. To win a horse must be able to go also to stay. With twenty thousand of added money, there was sure to be always a long list of entries.
"Maybe you'd better have let him down easy. Joe Yankie is as revengeful as an Injun." "Let him down easy!" exploded the cattleman. "When he's just pulled off a raw deal by which I lose a bunch of forty fat three-year-olds. I ought to have gunned him in his tracks." "If you had proof, but you haven't.
And then ah, well, boss, I'm yarning a heap, and the boys are out on the fences with no one to see they're not shooting 'craps." The rancher turned to the door. "I'm going out to the fences meself," he said, shortly. Then he went on: "There's a dozen an' more three-year-olds in the corrals needs bustin'. You best set two o' the boys on 'em. Ther's a black mare among 'em.
A dealer named Lighter owned 'em, and they won the blue ribbon for three-year-olds at Yakima and Spokane." "I know them," replied the chauffeur. "They are owned here in the valley now; and Lucky Banks' wife is driving them. You can meet her most any day speeling down to the Columbia to see her goats." "Goats?" queried Frederic. "Yes, sir.
The outfit was told to get busy and soon rounded up the necessary number of three-year-olds. Then came the road branding, the final step except inspection, and this was done not far from the ranch house, where the facilities were best for speedy work.
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