Usually when a cattle drive ended the men just turned around and went back to Texas, but then most drives stopped in Kansas, which seemed close to home compared to where they were now. I could have got a bunch for a scalp like yours. We oughtn't to talk this way around these young boys, Bert said. In stooping to reach for it, he fell face down, unconscious before he hit the ground.
Also, he grew stingy with water, which irritated the cowboys, who came in parched and dusty, dying for a drink. But the Captain didn't take back the order, so he unsaddled the little sorrel he had been riding, the one Clara had given him, and carried his saddle over to the mare. Some small spiky cactus hidden by the tall prairie grass proved more deadly than a snake. He barely touched the skin and the cut was made.
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