Outing . oPi W a Q w OGW !* ROUND-UP DAYS BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE DRAWINGS BY J. N. MARCHAND. THE DRIVE CRY awakened me. Itwas still deep night. Themoon sailed overhead, thestars shone unwaveringlike candles, and a chillbreeze wandered in fromthe open spaces of thedesert. I raised myself on my elbow,throwing aside the blankets and the canvastarpaulin. Forty other indistinct formlessbundles on the ground all about me weresluggishly astir. Four figures passed andrepassed between me and a red fire. Iknew them for the two cooks and thehorse wranglers. One of the latter wasgrumbling. Didnt git in t
Outing . oPi W a Q w OGW !* ROUND-UP DAYS BY STEWART EDWARD WHITE DRAWINGS BY J. N. MARCHAND. THE DRIVE CRY awakened me. Itwas still deep night. Themoon sailed overhead, thestars shone unwaveringlike candles, and a chillbreeze wandered in fromthe open spaces of thedesert. I raised myself on my elbow,throwing aside the blankets and the canvastarpaulin. Forty other indistinct formlessbundles on the ground all about me weresluggishly astir. Four figures passed andrepassed between me and a red fire. Iknew them for the two cooks and thehorse wranglers. One of the latter wasgrumbling. Didnt git in till moon-up last night,he growled, might as well trade my bedfor a lantern and be done with it. Even as I stretched my arms andshivered a little, the two wranglers threwdown their tin plates with a clatter,mounted horses and rode away in the di-rection of the thousand acres or so knownas the pasture. I pulled on my clothes hastily, buckledin my buckskin shirt and dove for the dozen others were before me. It wasbitterly cold. In the east the sky hadpaled the least bit in the world,
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