The Wrong Woman

thousand ways her

truck out in the direction of certain water-holes, his mission being to look over some B.U.

involved in a boggy water-hole. He threw the rope over her horns and pulled with his pony this way and that, but without success. Finally, when the sun was going down on failure, he resolved to kill or cure. He gave the rope another turn round the horn of his saddle and started up at imminent risk to her neck. Her legs were rooted in the tough mu

cattle, he was very long-sighted; his eye could reach out and read the half-obliterated brand on a distant cow-a faculty which saves a horse many steps, especially on a ranch where the cattle do not all belong to one owner. Tuck, being

Having taken in all visible details and circumstances, he ve

ming finally to where the subject of horse was being discussed, he joined himself to this multitude of counselors; and finding Hank Bullen among those present, he related his ex

ay?" asked Ed Curtis, who had

ght," sa

hite collar and cuffs

t have any hat on. I said she had on a dark dress with wh

She was going out that way. She rode a so

e grass. He was a short-coupled sorrel with a stocking on his near hin

h a big breastpin. I noticed it wasn't any eight-dollar hat; she had

a stay to turn him loose like

ing but these same facts, the ta

his eye along the row of horses at the hitching-rack. At the end of the row was an extremely starved-lookin

o you expect of a horse that is just out of the poor-house? There's a real

s and teeth; then he stepped back

nk of it?" asked

inquired Whallen

swered Todd. "This fellow t

easy enough put meat on a horse.

git-ap,"

anything?" a

er with him yesterday and he held it while I made a tie.

im?" inqui

e that suit of clothes they sold me up in Chicago. And Steve Brown says to me, 'I should

ew yesterday. When he was coming along the road he

l about the strange case o

s Steve Brown?" the

id n't get a right good view of his face. He said i

he came along with me to see them auction off the bunch of strays. This horse was one of them; that's why he's so t

woman come to

s were doing, and while he was there Pete remarked that sheep-life was getting pretty monotonous. So

n't see very plain,"

dd in disgust. "You

t quit on his own ho

gets through being drunk. He told me he had to get through

d did herding like that before. He a

him to go along and bid in this horse for me. I saw he was a good horse, but I d

ard and began feeling the distance between the horse's rump and floating ribs

se. "Ain't them bones plain enough to see? I guess you think

se like that and you see what you 're getting. W

ones he had been flouting, stepped back and held his peace; and pr

one side and then the other. He expected to get sight of some one of the crew that had brought the cattle into the loading-pens; but they had totally di

aid Toot Wilson,

ere

ey 're in there. He is making

N

ng Chase. It'

ident satisfaction. The heavy stock saddle, its quantities of leather all richly beflowered, was mounted on a trestle beside him. It was so near completion that the long saddle-strings now hung down in pairs all round, and these thongs, being of lighter-colored leather, and sprouting ou

of it, Al?" asked

big cinch rings and strong stirrup straps. The stirrups were

it?" he asked, point

eep hooded stirrups with a great superfluity of leath

s hand as if to quell this mental disturbance before it had gone too

nce rearranged

im-dandy,"

s and gave his attention to the principal speaker as he resumed his account of a ropi

nce Todd found his

g," he said. "Steve Br

story-teller. "He done that

s a woman out there w

n! What

past and saw them sitting by th

e herdin'?" aske

sheep. He's out there tending the

th them," said Harry Lee.

ey got?" inqu

s got

, what have they got?" repeated Tom a

at's reliable to settle up what he leaves. And this other fellow sees that everything is tended to and done o

whose untutored mi

this woman?" as

rass; and she's out there with h

Reedy tell she was alone just by the light of the fire? T

d just pulled up his st

se had hobbles on

she was going out there alone. And if there was anybody else around would n't they be eati

he very beginning and told it all, going into details

a felt hat? And

ck. It was turne

who that is!"

de of the tracks near the loading-pen. After a while the women folks got to talking about the place and making objections; so then the rent was r

astpin," s

t's

ection failed to bring up a parallel.

to herd sheep. They can raise all of them they want, but I 'll stick to cattle; 'specially in spr

as a lamb you've got to mix in and get her to adopt it. And half the time it's twins. And

h with that band of sheep, it would have taken Solomon to straighten out the family troubles. One t

Diefenbach, who had now tur

particular; no admittance unless he 's the right one, according to smell. And maybe she won't take one anyway. Then the lamb is up against trouble; he keeps going round trying to get dinner everywhere. If he 's

the philosophic Diefenbach. "Has

y likely she has twins, and it's all she can do to keep th

ts for the bunch of sheep. They are all tuned up to a different sound; so are the sheep. And the lamb and the sheep know each other by sound. Well, the sheep will hear that and she'll let out her sound and get an answer back, and that way he 'll find her in the bunch. Maybe they meet halfway; then she smells him and it is all right. Well, we have a thousand sheep all grazin

p won't have any lamb or any milk and another will be feed

do about that? How can he

born and see that every sheep takes her lamb and gets to liking it.

mentarily to his native tongue. He picked up a bea

ally travels in a circle,-and being now in their native el

d turn a fi

orld with noble

stantial and complete, when, by divers methods, it go