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Before leaving, however, the entire party in company of our employer took a stroll about the hide yard, which was some distance from camp. During this tour of inspection, Annear asked which were the bales of outside hides taken in Deweese's division, claiming he represented a number of brands outside of Las Norias. The bales were pointed out and some dozen unbaled hides looked over.
For six or seven months, it was at least that long ago since my discovery of their uprising migration in Wild Basin they had been living on dried fare unbaled hay with no water to wash it down, for there were no flowing springs about their airy castles. Snow was the only moisture to be had. I was all eagerness to "shoot" them with my camera!
At last we got to the dumping-ground spot again the spot where we horsemen have to come to earth and walk, and where everything is unbaled from the limbers. Here we were again, on the threshold of the trenches. This monotonous dreary routine of "in" and "out" of the trenches had to be gone through many, many times before we got to Christmas Day.
On a count the baled and unbaled hides were found to tally exactly with the list submitted. But unfortunately Annear took occasion to insinuate that the list of brands rendered had been "doctored." Uncle Lance paid little attention, though he heard, but the other visitors remonstrated with Annear. This only seemed to make him more contentious.
Well, thus equipped, we all set out even the fellow with the broken head, who should certainly have kept in shadow and straggled, one after another, to the beach, where the two gigs awaited us. Even these bore trace of the drunken folly of the pirates, one in a broken thwart, and both in their muddied and unbaled condition.
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