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"But how do you know there are sixteen or twenty beaver in my pond?" "You said there was two houses," answered the woodsman. "Well, we reckon always from eight to ten beaver to each house, bein' the old couple, and then three or four yearlin's not yet kicked out to set up housekeeping fer themselves, and three or four youngsters of the spring's whelping.
He kept their trail with little effort, head cocked on one side like a saucy meadowlark, and whistled snatches of "Hell Among the Yearlin's," as though the prospect of a sanguinary brush with thieves was pleasing in the extreme. The afternoon was on its last lap when we came in sight of Stony Crossing.
Disston colored. Kate replied ironically: "Perhaps he is one of those who do not boast of their acquaintance with sheepherders." "Kate!" he protested vigorously. She regarded him with a faint inscrutable smile until Bowers interrupted: "How many bells shall I put on them yearlin's?" "One in fifty; and cut those five wethers out of the ewe herd.
Well, they hops in, an' Cherokee gives 'em the two back seats on account of the female an' the yearlin's. "'My name is Jones, says the gent in the black coat, when he gets settled back an' the stage is goin', I an' I'm an exhortin' evangelist. I plucks brands from the burnin'. "'I'm powerful glad to know it, says Texas, who likes talk.
"'Way high up in the Mokiones, among the mountain-tops, A lion cleaned a yearlin's bones and licked his thankful chops, When who upon the scene should ride, a-trippin' down the slope," "Doggone the slope!" blurted Pete as he stubbed his toe on a rock. But when he reached Concho his eyes had cleared.
And in three minutes more he was back at the bars with the fifth cow. "Lucky one was a heifer an' the other one dry!" commented Link to the collie, after petting him and praising him for the exploit. "I'll have to learn you to drive milch cows easy an' quiet. You can't run 'em like you run sheep an' yearlin's. But apart from that, you sure done grand.
But at the time I sees this yere Damon an' Pythias, I says to myse'f, an' ever since I makes onhesitatin' assertion tharof, that the brotherly views them two gents entertains ain't a marker to Jim Willis an' me. "'This yere Jim I knows since we're yearlin's. We-alls jumps outen the corral together back in Tennessee, an' goes off into this Mexican war like twins. An' bein' two boys that a-way
"He was 'tendin' to his own business when your two men come up and begin pickin' on him." Bursting with anger, Parenthesis strode up to Buck, and shouted: "He was brandin' one of our yearlin's, that's what his business was." Sage-brush suggested, in addition: "Perhaps you mean that brandin' other folks' cattle is the reg'lar business of the Lazy K outfit."
Myself, I think that's pressin' the average some; I'd put it at somewhere between two an' three. But it's generally figured at four." "I didn't know that wolves, lone wolves, would attack cattle." "It's calves an' yearlin's mostly that they go for. It ain't often that you see a wolf tacklin' anythin' bigger'n a two-year-old.
"He's the best man in the deestrict," said Landy thoughtfully. "But he's got the same problems we have. He's got critters to feed, en he can't run two places when the snow is here. I hope, however, that Davy here can make him a permanent offer that will move him at once. "But we've got to git them yearlin's outa the Cliffs en up to the stables," Landy announced emphatically.
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