They did not view their charges as 

 loved and loving followers, but as four- 

 legged cash ; each sheep was worth a 

 dollar bill. They were cared for only 

 as a man cares for his money, and 

 counted after each alarm or day of 

 travel. It is not easy for any one to 

 count three thousand sheep, and for 

 a Mexican sheep-herder it is an im- 

 possibility. But he has a simple de- 

 vice which answers the purpose. In 

 an ordinary flock about one sheep in 

 a hundred is a black one. If a portion 

 of the flock has gone astray, there is 

 likely to be a black one in it. So by 

 counting his thirty black sheep each 

 day Tampico kept rough count of his 

 entire flock. 



Grizzly Jack had killed but one 

 sheep that first night. On his next 

 visit he killed two, and on the next 

 but one, yet that last one happened to 



