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they branded, and when did they need 
it? My ignorance was hopeless and 
pathetic, and those to whom I applied 
were all too familiar with the process 
to be able to describe it. I might as 
well have asked for a full description or 
how a man ate his dinner. 
‘Will you take me to the round- 
up to-morrow?” I asked of the ‘WB’ 
boss. 
“ Well, I could have a team hitched 
up, and Bob could drive you to the 
Black Nob Hill, where you can get a 
good view,” was the tolerant reply. 
Bob had wrenched his foot the day 
betore, when roping a steer, and was 
therefore incapacitated for anything but 
‘woman’s work "—‘a soft job.’ 
* Oh, but I do not want to be so far 
away and look on; I want to be zy it.” 
He looked at me out of the angle of 
