. Philip of Texas; a story of sheep raising in Texas. ^ overlapping the banks at thenorthern end of the valley, a fact which accounted forthe quantity of water I had found while going towardthe sheep, and I fancied it was possible to hear, faraway in the distance, a roaring noise such as a water-fall might produce. TRYING TO SAVE THE STOCK Heedless of the fact that my twelve sheep werestampeded, I ran swiftly along the edge of the streamtoward the wagons, shouting wildly that a flood wasupon us. I was yet twenty or thirty yards distantwhen father came out to learn why I was raising suchan alar
. Philip of Texas; a story of sheep raising in Texas. ^ overlapping the banks at thenorthern end of the valley, a fact which accounted forthe quantity of water I had found while going towardthe sheep, and I fancied it was possible to hear, faraway in the distance, a roaring noise such as a water-fall might produce. TRYING TO SAVE THE STOCK Heedless of the fact that my twelve sheep werestampeded, I ran swiftly along the edge of the streamtoward the wagons, shouting wildly that a flood wasupon us. I was yet twenty or thirty yards distantwhen father came out to learn why I was raising suchan alarm. 78 PHILIP OF TEXAS It needed but one glance for him to understand thatwe were in the gravest danger. Even while I ran, itwas possible for me to see the river rising, rising, untilwhat, at the moment I set off to herd the sheep, hadbeen comparatively dry land, was being flooded so. rapidly that before I had gained the wagons, they werestanding a full inch deep in the water. Father ran hurriedly, with a look of alarm on hisface, toward the cook shanty and shouted for motherto make all haste, to leave everything behind her, andto clamber into one of the wagons. Then, turning tothe negroes, he literally drove them out from theirshelter, ordering them to round up the mules without THE ANIMALS STAMPEDED 79 delay so we might hitch them to the wagons. It wasnot necessary that I should be told to obey this com-mand on the instant, even though it was not directedto me. I wheeled about, intending to turn the mulesin the direction of the w^agons, leaving the slaves tobring up the harness, but while doing so, I saw that wewere too late by at least three or four minutes, for themules, having already taken alarm by the rising of thewater, were making their way at a quick pace up theincline which led to the higher land, following directlybehind the sheep. THE ANIMALS STAMPEDED
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