All the animals are driven in and counted, and the young ones branded.

It's pretty exciting sometimes, I can tell you, for the cattle get wild, and it's all we can do to manage them.

You should see some of our boys ride; it's splendid, and there's one half-breed that's the best hand with the lasso I ever saw.

Phil will like it, I know.

And 'us' is me and my partner." "Have you a partner ?" "Yes, two, in fact; but one of them lives in New Mexico just now, so he does not count.