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They were the long-legged, long-horned Southern cattle, pale-colored as a rule, possessed the running powers of a deer, and in an ordinary walk could travel with a horse. They had about thirty vaqueros under a corporal driving the herd, and the cattle were strung out in regular trailing manner.
The three big corrals were crowded with a bellowing, churning, restless mass of cattle, big, long-horned steers for the most part, and vicious-looking. In a much smaller inclosure were a few saddle-horses half-broken colts, to look at them thrusting their long noses above their fence to stare at the seething jam of cattle, or, with tails and manes flying, to run here and there snorting.
One day as I was returning from it with my empty pail, a tidy, black-eyed woman came up to me and said, "I'm a Cherokee Indian, the wife of one of the three drovers that sold the Brunners them long-horned cattle that was delivered the other day. I know who you are, and if you'll sit on that log by me, I'll tell you something."
Jack came back at him. Whereat they laughed and called a truce, which was the way of them. Scattered, grazing herds of wild, long-horned cattle that ran from their approach gave place to feeding mustangs with the mark of the saddle upon them.
He had practised it often, and had lassoed many a long-horned bull upon the prairies of Opelousas and the Attakapas. To Basil, therefore, the rope was given. He placed himself on the highest part of the rock, having first coiled the new-made lasso, and hung the coil lightly over his left arm. He then took the noose-end in his right hand, and commenced winding it around his head.
"One man bunged, and four to lug him home, and the rest of the crew taking a sympathetic vacation!" Farr, sauntering, swung off the highway down the lane leading to the temporary bridge. "Here, you long-horned steer, want a job?" called the contractor from his rostrum on the granite block. "No, my Sussex shote, I do not!" "Damnation! You dare to call me names, you hobo?"
The air was sweet with the smell of the weed-grown fields. The long-horned oxen that drew him and the naked boy that drove the team stopped before his cabin. "You cannot put that creature in there," said the thoughtful overseer. "He would suffocate under a roof he has been too long out-of-doors for that. Put him on my cottage porch."
Then of a sudden all about us appeared buffaloes that had, I suppose, been sleeping invisible to us. These, with snorts and bellows, rushed off towards the river, for having their senses about them, they had no mind to be trapped in the kloof. I could only manage a shot at one of them, a large and long-horned cow which I knocked over quite dead.
Now the superb herd of long-horned creatures are seen to wheel to the right or left, now to advance or retreat at the signal he issues. The wapiti is indeed a grand animal, growing to the height of the tallest ox, and endowed with wonderful activity, as well as power.
A man in a gig came driving a long-horned cow in front of him. Driver, horse, gig, and cow were like animated shapes of dust, but Pete recognised them. "Is it yourself, Cæsar? So you're for selling ould Horney?" "Grieved in my heart I am to do it, sir. Many a good glass of milk she has given to me and mine," and Cæsar was ready to weep. "Going falling in fits, isn't she, Cæsar?"
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