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Down with the flu bug this week so I wanted some light reading. Dug out some of my old Louis L’amour books. One story reminded me of some of the characters on this forum. Seems some of the hands were sitting around the fire at round-up time b.s.ing. I’ll bet their face’s were as straight as can be & they never blinked an eye!

“Knew a cowhand one time over in the brush country,” Lawton Bean said, starting to build a smoke. “He was a reliable man. You sent him out to do something, he done it, no matter what. Well, one time the boss told him to clean up all the stock south of the ridge, and when he came in that night he had a hundred and twenty-seven head of cattle, thirty sheep, three mountain goats, seven tom turkeys, a bobcat and two bears…. And what was more, he’d branded ever last one of them.”

“I don’t believe that part about the sheep,” Jule Simm said mildly. “Seems unlikely a man would run sheep with cows.”
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