Histoires de l'Ouest . s se dévalant à un traut à travers un passage parmi les buttes—^thesaddle-bandes étant conduit à un paceto intelligent d'un côté ou derrière, les teamsters grègnent leurs fouets et les équestres qui appellent et crient à mesure qu'ils passent rapidement de côté à côté derrière les chevaux, exhortant les straggeurs à toucher les extrémités nouées des laisons longs qui sont laissés à la traîne de la triste réunion. Le pays conduit est un andit très rugueux est souvent nécessaire pour doubler les équipes et pucher huit chevaux à chaque wagon en allant vers le haut de terrain exceptionnellement raide ou en train de passer par un profond boue-h

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Stories of the West . s filing downat a trot through a pass among the buttes—^thesaddle-bands being driven along at a smart paceto one side or behind, the teamsters crackingtheir whips and the horse-wranglers calling andshouting as they ride rapidly from side to sidebehind the horses, urging on the stragglers bydexterous touches with the knotted ends of theirlong lariats that are left trailing from the sad-dle. The country driven over is very rough andit is often necessary to double up teams and puton eight horses to each wagon in going up anunusually steep pitch or hauling through a deepmud-hole or over a river crossing where there isquicksand. The speed and thoroughness with which acountry can be worked depends, of course, verylargely upon the number of riders. Ours isprobably about an average round-up as regardssize. The last spring I was out there were halfa dozen wagons along; the saddle-bands num-bered about a hundred each; and the morning westarted, sixty men in the saddle splashed across H p 3 ft. ^^^^^^^^^^^B^»J^£..^JL. ii^ri:!!»-!:l THE ROUND-UP 173 the shallow ford of the river that divided theplain where we had carnped from the valley ofthe long winding creek up which we were first towork. In the morning the cook is preparing breakfastlong before the first glimmer of dawn. As soonas it is ready, probably about 3 oclock, he uttersa long-drawn shout, and all the sleepers feel it istime to be up on the instant, for they know therecan be no such thing as delay on the round-up, under penalty of being set afoot. Accordingly, they bundle out, rubbing their eyes and yawn-ing, draw on their boots and trousers, —if theyhave taken the latter off, —roll up and cord theirbedding, and usually without any attempt atwashing crowd over to the little smoldering fire, which is placed in a hole dug in the ground, sothat there may be no risk of its spreading. Themen are rarely very hungry at breakfast, and itis a meal that has to be eaten in shortest order, soit is perha

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