. Philip of Texas; a story of sheep raising in Texas. with theother things they might need, such as flour, a bit ofbacon, and salt. The wages paid at that time were onlytwenty dollars a month. THE PROFITS FROM SHEEP RAISING 55 THE PROFITS FROM SHEEP R.\ISING The cook had somemarvelous stories totell of the moneythat might be madein Texas by sheepraising, and amongthem was this : — A man for whomhe worked had aflock of fifteen hun-dred sheep, which helet out to a herder onshares. He gave theherder one quarterof the wool, and one quarter of the increase in lambs; he also furnished thesalt, the s
. Philip of Texas; a story of sheep raising in Texas. with theother things they might need, such as flour, a bit ofbacon, and salt. The wages paid at that time were onlytwenty dollars a month. THE PROFITS FROM SHEEP RAISING 55 THE PROFITS FROM SHEEP R.\ISING The cook had somemarvelous stories totell of the moneythat might be madein Texas by sheepraising, and amongthem was this : — A man for whomhe worked had aflock of fifteen hun-dred sheep, which helet out to a herder onshares. He gave theherder one quarterof the wool, and one quarter of the increase in lambs; he also furnished thesalt, the sheep dip, and, of course, the herders are the figures which the cook showed me setdown in a greasy pocket book of his, and which hedeclared were absolutely true. The owner received forthe wool, after the herder had taken his share, eighthundred dollars; the increase in lambs was eighthundred, which at even a dollar and a half amountedto twelve hundred dollars. Of this last one fourthwent to the herder, leaving nine hundred dollars for. 56 PHILIP OF TEXAS the increase. Thus the owner of the sheep received asa net profit from a flock of only fifteen hundred sheepseventeen hundred dollars, which is almost as well ashe could have done in Mississippi. Even though I had not been bent on sheep raising be-fore we entered Texas, that story alone would have beensufficient to excite my desire to engage in it. It is truemy twelve sheep would make a sorry showing by theside of fifteen hundred, but yet I was only twelve yearsold, and, as I had said to myself again and again,fortune must go against me exceedingly hard if by thetime I had come to manhood I could not show morethan fifteen hundred, even though the beginning hadbeen so small. fathers land claim After seeing that sheep ranch and hearing the storiestold of the money that might be made in the business,I was more eager than ever to come to that claim whichfather had staked out, so I might get my share of theflock in good
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