Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 648
to hurl the lariat with some sure-ness of ensnaring his target, to ride all day with-out appreciable fatigue at night, to estimatethe profits to be expected from horses, cattle,sheep, and goats, but to know that a quick handand ready brain and fearlessness were things ofsteady value, and to have… … good stuff in him, this boy, and the semi-roughlife brought it out. He was thrown from thesaddle and badly jarred, but he arose withtight-shut lips and not a murmur of complaint.He suffered thirst on long journeys througharid portions of the land, and found that queru-lous words did not bring him…
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