. Philip of Texas; a story of sheep raising in Texas. ll the meat had been cut into thin ribbonsand hung on the scaffolding, we were covered with blood, PHILIP OF TEXAS — 8 112 PHILIP OF TEXAS and on the topmost branches of the pecans sat a dozenor more of those miserable turkey buzzards, awaitingan opportunity to come down and eat what was left ofthe carcass. It was necessary to keep as close a watchover those birds as we did over the wolves, else all our labor would havebeen speedily de-voured. Whenthere was an op-portunity for amuch-needed bath,father allowed nomore than two ofus to go into
. Philip of Texas; a story of sheep raising in Texas. ll the meat had been cut into thin ribbonsand hung on the scaffolding, we were covered with blood, PHILIP OF TEXAS — 8 112 PHILIP OF TEXAS and on the topmost branches of the pecans sat a dozenor more of those miserable turkey buzzards, awaitingan opportunity to come down and eat what was left ofthe carcass. It was necessary to keep as close a watchover those birds as we did over the wolves, else all our labor would havebeen speedily de-voured. Whenthere was an op-portunity for amuch-needed bath,father allowed nomore than two ofus to go into the•stream at a time,obliging the othersto remain wherethey might standguard over themeat. When night came, the ribbons of flesh were not whollycured and we found it necessary to gather them upand store them in one of the wagons lest the dew spoilthe flesh ; in the morning we hung all the thin stripsout again, standing over them jealously. It seemed to me just then as if all our days and nightsin Texas were to be spent standing guard over some-. SEARCHING FOR THE CATTLE AGAIN 113 thing. During the night we were forced to watch lestthe wolves devour our sheep, and during the day wehad to keep a careful eye over the turkey buzzards whoseemed on the verge of starvation all the time. Inaddition to this labor, it was necessary to perform theregular work on the ranch, and thus it may be seenthat we did not have much time for idhng. SEARCHING FOR THE CATTLE AGAIN The next day father sent out two of the negroes tosearch for our cattle, believing it would be useless for usto make any attempt at herding them until after theyhad had ample time to quiet down from the alarmcaused by the chase and the killing of the bidl. The black men were absent from the camp twentyhours before coming back with all the herd, and to haveheard these negroes complain, one might have thoughtthat they had walked a full hundred miles. Accordingto their story they traveled a long, long distance beforecoming
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