Ranching 



ranchman often leads a life of as grinding 

 hardness as the average dweller in a New 

 York tenement-house. His shelter is a 

 small log hut, or possibly a dugout in the 

 side of a bank, or in summer a shabby 

 tent. For food he will have to depend 

 mainly on the bread of his own baking, 

 on fried fat pork, and on coffee or tea 

 with sugar and no milk. Of course he 

 will occasionally have some canned stuff 

 or potatoes. The furniture of the hut is 

 of the roughest description a roll of 

 blankets for bedding, a bucket, a tin 

 wash-basin, and a tin mug, with perhaps 

 a cracked looking-glass four inches square. 

 He will not have much society of any 

 kind, and the society he does have is not 

 apt to be over-refined. If he is a lad of a 

 delicate, shrinking nature and fastidious 

 habits, he will find much that is uncom- 

 fortable, and will need to show no small 

 amount of pluck and fortitude if he is to 

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