The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-27
TIE COW-MAN'S
HABIT OF OBSERVATION.
Sherlock Holmes Himself Could Not
Show a Keener Eye.


Show a Keener Eye
Speaking Of the habit of observa-
ton, remarked a travelling man lust
nome from six months trip in Texas
i don't believe Sherlock Holmes him
self, could beat the average Texas
cCF-nan, so far as things bovine
equine or even pOrCine are con-
cerned. While down there, I frequently
Ead occasion to take lOnS trips over
land TO make certain towns on my
route. In this way 1 had an ODportun-
ity of seeing good deal Of COW fratern-
Icy, If l may use the term, and notice
some of their peculiarities. Right here
I want to say that hey are the most
. ho5pitable lot I ever met. Strike up
with them in camp, on the drive or at
the ranch and what's theirs is yours
bed. board or bottle, just as long as
you'll stay.
The popularity of their close OBJ
servation and good memory struck my
attention on a drive / took from san
saba 20 Lampasas in company with
coW-man who had a seat with me
in the stage. We met a couple of
cow UunChers out in the hills who
rode Ions side and asked if we'd seen
any cattle back along the road. Prob
ably I'd seen them, Iut they made
no impression on my memory and / was
about to say. No when my COW
/ friend spoke UP and said: Yes, about
two miles back we passed four head,
/ three steer yearlings and 2-year-
old heifer branded J. T. on the left
( hiD.'
That's them all rigIre, responded
} the cowboys and off they gall9ped with
I assurance of successful search ahead Of
/ them.
mother time it was horses the
: riders were hunting. A bay mare and
/ dun colt branded pc--hooks bar and
] he of n a
/ sorrei. branded o. K and oh i'm
dasher circle, respectively answered
I the description given by a fellow
/ traveller. which for the life of me 1
/ could never have given. Just some
! horses browsing on the road side was
; ali I saw, gender, color nor brand made
any impression on my mind whatever.
/ In fact. the pot-hOOks and Churn-
/ dasher were 50 much lierOgIyphics to
me and I couldn't have told what they
l were even had seen them
"One day en- another trip up in the
/ neishoodhOCd Of TexUaCana, which
! from the spelling. no one would ever
/ suspect its being pronounced TeWan-
/ kceae an old fellow on foot stopped the
] stage and asked if we'd seen any
hogs back yOnder2 Now all hogs, like
/ Cinnamon and cCons, look alike to me.
TO matter when or where I may see
/ them.
THE bunch of pigs we'd passed out
I on the post-Cak fat about half an
hour before were IN my memory just
I a lot of Ligs crunching acorns and dp-
( pareE-ly having d very good time Of "a.
/ Another surprise. A song, lean,
] leather-leggined young fellow olsen
! tangled his spurred heels from aloft
| someN here, and leaning through the
! window drawled out i seen a passel
/ 'er shoats, bout dozen EN-, back yon-
/ der on the fat tCther side the creek
Some of 'em is got a crop and under
/ bit in Their right year. an 'er sswOlleI
/ fork in tCther, Their rest on 'em s over
bit an under slope in left Bout q
dozen EN- all tOle. all of 'em shoats,
| reckon them's your n
IS 'They's our'n" was the rejoindel
and the stage moved ~ leaving mt
richer in hog lore. and wondering how
the dickens that sleepy looking fellow
saw SO much out OF the corner of his
eye.
! The habit Of the observation o.