his eye to make sure that I was in 
earnest. ‘’Tain’t safe,” he said. 
“Then you mean to say that every 
cowboy risks his life in a round-up?” 
“Oh, well, they're: men ‘and ‘take 
their chances. Besides, it’s their busi- 
ness.” . 
I never yet have been able to have 
a direct question answered by a true 
mountaineer or plainsman by a simple 
yes or no. Is there something in the 
bigness of their surroundings — that 
causes the mind to spread over an idea 
and lose directness like a meadow 
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However, by various wiles known to 
my kind, the next morning at daybreak 
I was mounted upon the surest-footed 
animal in the ‘ bunch.’ 
“She’s a trained cow pony and 
won’t lose her head,” the boss re- 
marked. 
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