Where can the old man have "touched" for them ?' 'How should I know ?' I said roughly.

I had a kind of idea, but I thought he would never be so rash.
When we got up I could see the cattle had been rounded up in a flat with stony ridges all round.

There must have been three or four hundred of them, only a man and a boy riding round and wheeling them every now and then.

Their horses were pretty well knocked up.

I knew father at once, and the old chestnut mare he used to ride--an animal with legs like timbers and a mule rump; but you couldn't tire her, and no beast that ever was calved could get away from her.