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and hardship; the next thing is to learn 

 the nature of the country. 



A young fellow from the East who has 

 been brought up on a farm, or who has 

 done hard manual labor as a machinist, 

 need not go through a novitiate of manual 

 labor in order to get accustomed to the 

 roughness that such labor implies; but 

 a boy just out of a high-school, or a 

 young clerk, will have to go through just 

 such a novitiate before he will be able to 

 command a dollar's pay. Both alike will 

 have to learn the nature of the country, 

 and this can only be learned by actual 

 experience on the ground. 



Again, the beginner must remember 

 that though there is occasional excite- 

 ment and danger in a ranchman's life, 

 it is only occasional, while the monotony 

 of hard and regular toil is not often 

 broken. Except in the matter of fresh 

 air and freedom from crowding, a small 

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