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must to know how to manage them. Always be gentle and 

 quiet in your movements among your cattle. Accustom them to 

 hear you sing in a sort of monotone, and you will be surprised 

 to see how quickly they will know your voice and learn to be 

 trustful and quiet in your presence. You will find this a great 

 help in time of sudden fright and threatened stampede in your 

 herd, or during a storm, when in spite of your best efforts you 

 are drifting and momentarily expecting a stampede. 



As the well-known voice of a trusted commander will hold 

 his men to their deadly work in a battle, so your well-known 

 monotonous song will keep your cattle together and hold those 

 in front and near you in check, though beaten and buffeted by 

 a wild and relentless storm of rain and wind. Should your cat- 

 tle get the start of you and go off on a mad run, keep 

 cool, think fast, and act promptly. If you have room, get 

 your horse as quickly as possible a rod or so in front of your 

 herd and a little to the right or left as the case may be (have all 

 your help with you), which will cause the cattle to crowd from 

 you, and in a little while you will have made a complete circle. 

 Sing all the time in your natural voice. If you can not keep 

 cool enough to do that, keep still until you can ; do n't scream 

 or yell ; watch closely, and just as soon as you see any signs of 

 the panic being over, crowd your horses a little more in front of 

 your cattle, so as to shorten the curve, and lessen the size of 

 your circle. Do n't try to stop them, but wind them up, and 

 if possible on a spot of ground with which they are familiar, and 

 your danger is over for the time, as your cattle will crowd 

 closely together, keeping up their circular motion, and when once 

 your herd is thus wound up, you can sing and rest your horse, 

 until of their own accord they quiet down. This is what cattle 

 men call " milling." After such a run do n't disturb your herd 

 until they begin feeding of their own accord, and you must be 

 exceedingly watchful and careful for a number of days, for it 

 will take some time for them to get over it. 



But suppose your stock are in the hills, and start for a run up 

 or down a valley or canyon and towards you? Keep some little 

 distance in front of them, and lead them out on to the plain, 



