Outing . d the landscape into the far dis-tance, rooting about to find what theycould; they lay in wallows; they heapedthemselves along fences; they snortedand splashed in sundry shallow pools;a good half-mile of maternal hogs occu-pied a row of kennels from which thevarious progeny issued forth betweenthe bars. I cannot say I am much in-terested in hogs, but even I could dimlycomprehend the Captains attitude ofswollen pride. They were clean andblack and more nearly approximated theabsurd hog-advertisements than I hadbelieved possible. You know the kindI mean,—an almost exact rectangle onfour
Outing . d the landscape into the far dis-tance, rooting about to find what theycould; they lay in wallows; they heapedthemselves along fences; they snortedand splashed in sundry shallow pools;a good half-mile of maternal hogs occu-pied a row of kennels from which thevarious progeny issued forth betweenthe bars. I cannot say I am much in-terested in hogs, but even I could dimlycomprehend the Captains attitude ofswollen pride. They were clean andblack and more nearly approximated theabsurd hog-advertisements than I hadbelieved possible. You know the kindI mean,—an almost exact rectangle onfour absurdly short legs. In the middle distance stood a long,narrow, thatched roof, supported onpoles. Beneath this, the Captain toldme, were the beehives. They proved la-ter to be in charge of a mild-eyed relig-ious fanatic who believed the world tobe flat. We took a cursory glance at a barnfilled to the brim with prunes and thegushing, beautiful artesian well; at themens quarters; the blacksmith shop, and. *&#&£££. ? IN A WELL-APPOINTED BROUGHAM DRAWN BY A GOOD TEAM IN PROPER HARNESS, AND ON THE BOX SAT A LEAN-FACED COWPUNCHER IN SOMBRERO, RED HANDKERCHIEF AND BLUE JEANS ! all the rest. So we rounded the circleand came to the most important singlefeature of the ranch,—the quarters forthe horses. A very long, deep shed, open on allsides, contained a double row of man-ners, facing each other and divided intostalls. Here stood and were fed theworking horses. By that I mean notonly the mule and horse teams, but alsothe utility driving teams and the saddle-horses used by the cowboys. Betweeneach two stalls was a heavy pillar sup-porting the roof and well supplied withfacilities for hanging up the harness andequipments. As is usual in California,the sides and ends were open to the airand the floor was simply the earth wellbedded. But over against this shed stood a bigbarn of the Eastern type. Here werethe private equipments. The Captain is a horseman. Hebreeds polo ponies after
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