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We were promised a large contingent of cattle for that day. The ranch outfit were to make three rodeos down the river the day before, where the bulk of their beeves ranged. Flood was anxious to overtake the other outfits before they reached the lower country, and as he assured me I had no further use for him, we agreed that after receiving that morning he might leave us.
DON EDUARDO. En que no se quiere recibir, ¿querrá usted decir? BRUNO. En que no se puede.... DON EDUARDO. En que no se quiere ... ¿a qué andar con rodeos? DON EDUARDO. Vaya ... ¿no es cierto que D. Pedro no quiere recibirme? Estoy por cantar de plano. DON EDUARDO. Ea, no tenga usted empacho ... ¿no es cierto?... BRUNO. Cierto ... ya que usted exige absolutamente....
Well, we can use a little fresh beef in this very camp. We'll kill him at noon. The wagon will move down near the river this morning, so we can make three rodeos from it without moving camp, and to-night we'll have a side of Pinto's ribs barbecued. My mouth is watering this very minute for a rib roast." That morning after a big rodeo on the Nueces, well above the Ganso, we returned to camp.
"There's one in that bunch that's sure aimin' to make you ride some," said Curly Elson with a grin, to Phil, as the family sat at breakfast. On the Cross-Triangle the men who were held through the summer and winter seasons between the months of the rodeos were considered members of the family.
"Haw-haw-haw!" Big Medicine interrupted, and took up the tale, which might have been entitled "Some Cowpunching I Have Seen." "They have them rodeos on a Sunday, mostly, and they invite everybody to it, like it was a picnic.
Lee had engaged the only man he could find for a cook Joe Isbel, a tall, lithe cowboy, straight as an Indian, with powerful shoulders, round limbs, and slender waist, and Isbel was what the westerners called a broncho-buster. He was a prize-winning rider at all the rodeos. Indeed, his seat in the saddle was individual and incomparable.
On the remaining gap in the circle we lost two days in waiting for rodeos, or gathering independently along the Tarancalous, and, on nearing the Santa Maria range, we had nearly fifteen hundred cattle. Our herd passed within plain view of the rancho, but we did not turn aside, preferring to make a dry camp for the night, some five or six miles further on our homeward course.
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