The cattle men got together by night, rode down the sheep-herders, shot them or drove them out, or were themselves driven out.

Teddy saw the deer fed and milked, the Lapland women being experts in that line, and found the herders, in their quaint parkas tied around the waist, and conical caps, scarcely less interesting than the deer.

Had they all followed as did the boy we would have captured every horse and probably have got the herders as well.

" She withdrew from the window for a few moments and hurriedly instructed the herder to call aloud certain namesany that he might think ofjust as if the house was full of men to whom he was giving orders.

On their way thither, they surprised and killed a party of wood-choppers down on the Pawnee Fork, as well as some herders who were guarding beef cattle; some seven or eight men in all, were killed, and it was evident that the Indians meant business.

I afterwards learned they had mistaken the herder, who had ridden home with me, for my father for whom they had been watching.

Bacha permitted the herders from the other sheepcotes to come over to his hut.

I did not see much of her husband, because in the mornings he rode away early to direct his Indian cattle-herders at the rodeos, or to oversee other ranch work, and I was often asleep when he returned nights.

It never came into his mind to credit the shaggy brute with an impulse born of good, and when he told the sheep-herder of his adventure in the pool, of his hitting high on the body and of losing the trail in the forest fire"down by the shack, when he turned up sudden and had me I thought my last day was come.