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RANCH LIFE AxND THE HUNTING-TRAIL 



THE HERD AT NIGHT. 



sible, and then ridin^^ round them until they He down and fall asleep. 

 Often, especially at first, this takes some time — the beasts will keep rising 

 and lying down again. When at last most become quiet, some perverse 

 brute of a steer will deliberately hook them all up ; they keep moving in 

 and out among one another, and long strings of animals suddenly start out 

 from the herd at a stretching walk, and are turned back by the nearest 



