. Philip of Texas; a story of sheep raising in Texas. fellow who could have remained longdisheartened, simply because a grumbling old turkeybuzzard chanced to fly in front of him. The stream by the side of which I hoped to live formany a long year was not deep at this season, but clearas crystal, and just cool enough to give me the sensationof being keenly alive when I plunged in head floundered about until I heard mother calling for meto hurry while the corn bread was hot, lest I lose myshgire, for both she and father were ravenously hungry. While we ate we decided where the cook c
. Philip of Texas; a story of sheep raising in Texas. fellow who could have remained longdisheartened, simply because a grumbling old turkeybuzzard chanced to fly in front of him. The stream by the side of which I hoped to live formany a long year was not deep at this season, but clearas crystal, and just cool enough to give me the sensationof being keenly alive when I plunged in head floundered about until I heard mother calling for meto hurry while the corn bread was hot, lest I lose myshgire, for both she and father were ravenously hungry. While we ate we decided where the cook camp shouldbe put up and how we would care for the cattle, thesheep, and the mules whfle we were building our house. PHILIP OF TEXAS — s 64 PHILIP OF TEXAS In fact, very many plans were laid during those ten orfifteen minutes, some of which were carried out at once. PLANS FOR BUILDING A HOUSE As for the cook shanty, we were not inchned to spendvery much time over it. Simply a shelter from the dew?.nd the sun, where mother might be screened from the. ^%J^^^ wind, so she could use thecookstove we had broughtwith us, was all we needed. Father intended to build a house of lumber, eventhough at that time he knew that he would be forcedto pay anyw^here from twenty to thirty dollars a thou- PLANS FOR BUILDING A HOUSE 65 sand feet for cheap boards, and then haul them no lessthan two hundred miles. After he had told me about the lumber I asked inwonder and surprise if he counted on spending so muchmoney, when we might build a house as the Mexicansdo, of adobe brick, with no more timber in it than wouldserve to hold uj) a roof of mud. He laughingly repliedthat when we had made a saw pit, he would show mehow we might get out our own building material, andsaid that I was to have a hand in the manufacture, forhe thought I could do my share of the sawing when Iwas not looking after the cattle or the sheep. Before leaving home he had made arrangements tokeep with us the three negroes whom we
Size: 1774px × 1408px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910, booksubjectfrontierandpioneerli
