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RANCH LIFE AND THE HUNTING-TRAIL 



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THE HERD AT NIGHT. 



sib\e, and then riding round them until they lie down and fall asleep. 

 Often, especially at first, this takes some time the beasts will keep rising 

 and lying down again. When at last most become quiet, some perverse 

 brute of a steer will deliberately hook them all up ; they keep moving in 

 and out among one another, and long strings of animals suddenly start out 

 from the herd at a stretching walk, and are turned back by the nearest 



