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5 revisions | Trinh Bui at Jun 08, 2020 12:18 PM | |
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18from ten to fifteen miles a day in the average, and everything is plain smiling, in fair weather. As night comes on, the cattle are rounded up in a small [___pass?], and held until they lie down, when two men are left on watch, riding round and round them in opposite direction, singing or whistling all the time, for two hours, that being the length of each watch. This singing is absolutely necessary, as it seems to soothe the fears of the cattle, scares away the wolves or other varmints that may be prowling around, and prevents them from hearing any other accidental sound, or dreaming of their old horses, [?] if stopped would, in all probability, be the sign for a general stampede. "Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast," if a cow-boy's | 18 |