How the dickens is old Hank going to feed them fifty thousand?
or five thousand?
It takes every spear uh hay he's got to feed his calves." "He could buy hay," Thurston persisted.
"Buy hay for fifty thousand cattle?
Where would he get it?
Say, Bud, I guess yuh don't realize that's some cattle.

All ails you is, yuh don't savvy the size uh the thing.

I'll bet yuh there won't be less than three hundred thousand head cross this river before spring." "Some of them belong in Canada--you said so yourself." "I know it, but look at all the country south of us: all the other cow States.

Why, Bud, when yuh talk about feeding every critter that runs the range, you're plumb foolish." "Anyway, it's a damnable pity!" Thurston asserted petulantly.
"Sure it is.

The grass is there, but it's under fourteen inches uh snow right now, and more coming; they say it's twelve feet deep up in the mountains.