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tails, dodging blows and kicks, and fi- 
nally emerge driving before him a cow 
followed by her calf. These another 
cowboy would take charge of and drive 
to a small bunch of cows and calves 
which I now noticed for the first time, 
separating them from their relations, 
who remonstrated in loud bellowings, 
stampings and freakish, brief, ill judged 
attacks. And then I understood what 
it meant to ‘cut out’ cattle from ‘a 
whole lot.’ 
When the calves and cows were 
finally separated, it was necessary to 
drive them also to the Big Flat for the 
afternoon’s work of branding those 
that ‘needed it. Van guarded the 
rear of the bunch and of course I rode 
with him, that is as near as I could, 
for he was as restless as a blue bottle fly 
in a glass jar, dashing hither and thither, 
