The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1894-01-21

els inside eat o hnsty breakfast. rome ana
SADDLE your morse. ana then an the boys
ride to their next camping place. Here
they leave the cattle In charge of two
day guards, who are ON for stretch OF
six hours, ana then they all scatter IN dif-
ierent directions TO round up an the cat
tie In that part of the country. White
they are gone the horse wrauglcrs get the
bunch of horses on good feeding grounds
and watch that they don't stray away.
The cook Is also busy with hauling wood.
IL Nhere isn't any near, building q camp
are perhaps slaughtcring beef for fresh
meat, and preparing n dinner Tor us hum
cry boys. At noon all the boys come IN
with their lunches OF cattle that they
gathered in the morning
THE COWBOYS REAL. WORK.
Now The real cowboy worl; begins. The
mornings roundup is thrown into one
large bunch Then all the BOYS, except
two or three, are stationed around the
| bunch at about equal distances, so as to
form a corral. Then the others set on
what they cnll their cutting" ponies.
These are always picked out as the fast
est and quickest ones In their string. and
they soon get to know about as much as
their own masters in cutting cattle into
| lunches. To cut or separate the cattle
they drive out all that are fat and old
enough to be shipped as beef into the
| bunch that have already been gathered.
| Then the cows with their calves are put
/ into another bunch and the remaining
1 cattle turned loose to roam unttl they are
old enough 70 ship.
Now q fire Is made and the branding
/ irons heated very hot. The best roper rides
| into the bunch ropes calf by the hind
I legs and brings IL out to the NIe, where
/ three or four boys throw it on its side
anu hold 1t there Whtle some OF the boys
"I on 'v az, t,i',' rs i'9t'gl .''is
ready and we hungry faii,vys nv, ,,,i,, t.,,
I reajv ia ent ottr plain lint ,,,r cNolreJ
t,o,i .t tho cnolt's calI "Fi,. MI a bnyg 81
{ In r,o "a fternoop yyo hive Tho s,,n, nro
I grammc but we are pretty sire TO have n
1 smaller bunch of cattle. We have TO slcep
ont i'm all Kinds of weather ana hnyc
nearly always the same food-bref or
/ bacon potatoes biscuits. black coffee sy-
run and dried apricots Ii makes quite a
/ picturesque scene at night to see the
CHEEKY camp fire with the pots and steam
/ ing coffee, surrounded boy about twenty
mon In the rough costume of the plains
each seated IN different position with Eis
I plate on his lap. while all around are
ponies cropping the dry prairie grass while
further out sim are hundreds OF Wild
steers kept In quiet submission 10y n couple
! OF old COW punchers singing old cowboy
songs and trying to be patient unul they
are relieved ana can JOIN the camp
TIRED But STILL JOLLY.
Actor "cb,,cls" Is over yye bave ouite n
! ioiI, lime i'm ca1np although ,vcrvbodv TX
SO tired. some sing others tell stories
while gyeut many are either pl,yln.y
poker or "bucliing" at monte number
of disputes arise over tho cnrds. and II
1 is not healthy for the individual caught
cheating. Tor nearly all the boys wear
! stockholders and are not averse TO using
| them, especially when about three sheets
| IN the wind"
There was "A man shot In camp while l