He has also an extensive cattle ranch on the Dismal river, sixty-five miles north of North Platte, his partner being Major Frank North, the old commander of the celebrated Pawnee scouts.

My brother told me later that so tender a husband and father was assuredly no cattle-thief.

In spring, after careful provision for their comfort, Mr. Bird went to the cattle market and bought cows.

My two sisters who had been living with us had married,Nellie, to A. C. Jester, a cattle man, and May, to Ed.

Here we climbed a mountain to an elevation of five thousand five hundred feet, over a cattle trail which was badly washed out, to a road leading to Fresno Flats.

Hungary at the same time has lost her greater resources in agriculture and cattle breeding.

Some time previously I had made arrangements to go into the cattle business in company with my old friend, Major Frank North, and while I was in California he had built our ranches on the South Fork of the Dismal river, sixty-five miles north of North Platte, in Nebraska.

Sometimes the cattle pens broke and mangled bullocks rolled about in the water and wreckage.

He knew, by a little reflection, that this must be cattle country, for the brakie had intimated as much in their talk just before dusk.

It was one of those great, rambling, two-storied structures which the cattle kings of the past generation were fond of building.

This, no doubt, makes it harder to recover a fugitive chattel; but the existence of human nature in a man here and there is surely one of those accidents to be counted on at least as often as fire, shipwreck, or the cattle-disease; and the man who chooses to put his money into these images of his Maker cut in ebony should be content to take the incident risks along with the advantages.

I could see dots, which I took to be herds of wild cattle grazing, but no sign of any human dweller.

These men were cattle dealers, and had been sending stock to Cho, and they were furious that men, in their rage for wealth, would so utterly ignore and trample on all decent and humane feelings as to torture animals as the Cho men were doing.

They drove us with the butt-ends of their rifles to a spot where a train of cattle trucks was standing in the yard, and we had to get in.

Here was a horse who could gallop tirelessly under him all day and labor through the mountains, bearing him as lightly as the cattle ponies bore ordinary men.

Every few years with dreary regularity we note the chronicler's brief record of cattle-plague, famine, pestilence.

And those clearings, transformed into pasture-land, watered by the neighboring springs, enabled Mathieu to treble his live-stock and attempt cattle-raising on a large scale.

Opposite this cattle-stall is the reception-room.

As we approached the range of hills tracks of cattle and horses were observed, and eight miles beyond Mount Hopeless came to a cattle station which had been lately established by Mr. Baker.

There was a fence in that country shutting in a cattle range, and along its fifteen miles of posts one could be sure of finding a bird or two in every strip of shadow; sometimes the sparrow and the hawk, with wings trailed and beaks parted drooping in the white truce of noon.

But what ship are you on board?" "Ardrigh, cross-channel cattle boat.

Anyhow, it has been the way of modern Irelandthe Ireland I knowand when I hear myth turned into history, or history into myth, I see in our stonebreakers and cattle drivers Greek husbandmen or ancient vinedressers of the Loire.

It was alleged that all males between the ages of 17 and 30 were being sent in cattle-cars to Germany.

The prince called his negroes and said to them: "Seize Half-a-Cock and cast him into the cattle-yard so that it may be crushed under their feet.

There was a fresh growth of fruitfulness: more and more cattle-sheds had to be built, sheepcotes had to be created, and manure came in loads and loads to endow the land with wondrous fertility.