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Mother Carey's chickens are any of the small petrels. The little 

 stormy petrels of poetry and story belong to the Old World and 

 only wander occasionally over to our side of the Atlantic. 

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petrel : pronounced pet'rel, so called in allusion, perhaps, to Saint 

 Peter's walking on the sea. 



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P Ranch : is one of the Hanley system of cattle ranches, which 

 cover a wide area almost seventy-five miles long. The buildings 

 and tree-fences, the stockades and sheds make it one of the most 

 picturesque I have ever seen. This story was told to me by Jack 

 Wade, the " boss of the buckaroos." " Buckaroo " is a corruption 

 of the Spanish vaquero, cowherd. 

 Winnemucca : find the place on the map. 



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buckskin: a horse of a soft yellowish color. He got his name 

 Peroxide Jim from the resemblance of the color of his coat to 

 that of human hair bleached by peroxide of hydrogen. 



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paper nests in trees: The common yellow-jacket hornet builds 

 similar large round nests in bushes, and other wasps build paper 

 nests behind walls, under the ground, in holes, etc. 



