A herd that big will be powerful hard to handle in some of them long passes.

An' if they'd get in some of that timber we'd never get them out.

We've got twenty-eight men.

If we'd have an open winter we'd likely be able to take care of about three thousand head by watchin' them close.

Now, if we'd leave about three thousand head at the Circle L--with four or five of the boys to keep an eye on them, that would leave us about twenty-three or twenty-four men for trail herd work.