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burro has lived wild till long past this age, which may 

 be from two to four or five, or has escaped to the range 

 after being broken and lived for a time in a wild state, 

 he is called an "outlaw." 



Bueno 



Pronounced in New Mexico " way-no." Spanish for 

 "good." 



Burro 



The Mexican substitute for the flat car, the moving 

 van, wagon or wheelbarrow. A beast of many bur- 

 dens. The best known test for self-control in the 

 Southwest. To give all the definitions of this little 

 beast that one might gather in the course of a day's 

 ride through the country where it is found would be 

 against public policy, so we will refer the reader to 

 the text of the story for further information on the 

 subject. 



Calipers 



An instrument consisting of a straight rule set off in 

 inches and fractions thereof, with two arms attached 

 to it at right angles, one fixed at the end of the rule, 

 the other sliding along the rule. One of them is 

 placed on either side of the trunk of the tree, whose 

 diameter is thus shown on the rule. To "caliper" a 

 tree is to measure its diameter by means of the calipers. 

 "When this diameter is found at the height of four 

 and a half feet from the ground, called "breast 

 height," and the height of the whole tree is estimated, 

 the number of feet of timber board measure that the 

 tree will total when cut and made into lumber can be 

 learned from volume tables prepared for the purpose. 



Cardinal 



The cardinal points of the compass are the four 

 principal ones, East, West, North, and South. 



