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Updated: June 21, 2025
When one finds a nice feed he gobbles it so fast that the pieces foller down his throat like yearlin's through a hole in the fence. It's only when he scratches up a measly one-grain quick-lunch that he calls up the hens and stands noble and self-sacrificin' to one side.
Bitter Creek was drying up rapidly and the water holes, stagnant and strongly alkaline, had already poisoned a few sheep. The herders could not understand the sheep woman's delay in moving to the mountains. "I'm runnin' myself ragged over these hills tryin' to hold back them yearlin's," Bunch declared.
"Well," says I, "I've followed lion tracks where they've carried yearlin's across their backs like a fox does a goose. They're tur'ble strong." "But where did she come from?" he wonders. "As for that," says I, "don't you remember now that T 0 outfit had a yearlin' kid when it came into the country?" "That's right," says he. "It's only a mile down the canon. I'll take it home.
He tells me there's a train at nine that evenin'. I sends him to the depot to fix it so I can take the colt to Loueyville in the express car, 'n' he says he'll get back quick as he can. I hunts up Peewee, but he's goin' to stay all night, 'cause the yearlin's won't sell till next day. . . .
As soon as Yankie had cantered away, Dad Wrayburn, ex-Confederate trooper, slapped his hand on his thigh and let out a modulated rebel yell. "Dad burn my hide, Jimmie-Go-Get-'Em, you're all right. Fustest time I ever saw Joe take water, but he shorely did splash some this here occasion. I wouldn't 'a' missed it for a bunch of hog-fat yearlin's."
And I never knew they was till I got time to set back and think over what we unbranded yearlin's used to do." "For instance?" queried Bartley. Senator Steve waved his pudgy hand as though shooing a flock of chickens off a front lawn. "If I was to tell you some of the things that happened, you would think I was a heap sight bigger liar than I am.
"See heah, y'u Jean Isbel," said Everts, "it shore was aboot time y'u come home. We-all heahs y'u hev an eye fer tracks. Wal, mebbe y'u can kill Old Gray, the lofer thet did this job. He's pulled down nine calves as' yearlin's this last two months thet I know of. An' we've not hed the spring round-up." Grass Valley widened to the southeast.
"'Hyah's yo' twenty dollahs, says the ole nigger, fishin' out a roll of raggedy bills and passin' 'em up to the stand. "'Thank you, Uncle Jake. Come to the clerk for your bill of sale this evenin', says the auctioneer. "I watches the sale a while longer, 'n' then mooches into the big barn where the yearlin's 'n' two-year-olds is waitin' to be sold.
"Where's that cholera-morbus case?" said he. "Stranger, them ain't sounds of cramps," I told him. "It's me singin' 'Hell Amongst the Yearlin's." Then I seen who he was and I fell among him. When we'd abated ourselves I looked him over. "What you doin' in all them good clothes?" I inquired. "I'm a D.D.S." "Do tell! All I ever took was the first three degrees.
Them's gamblers, an' mighty awful men; an' with that she snatches away the yearlin's like they's contam'nated. 'This is relief to Cherokee, but the young-ones howls like coyotes, an' wants to come back an' finish pillagin' him.
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