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where was one season o: tie year I dreaded--clehorning and branding
time. I always shhidared every time I went by the Squeuegate and I used.
to am: myself up in my room and stu£:l¢...ootton into my can so 1 wouldflnt hear
the loud ‘bellowing and mung of the comma enimll.

mm mm up us a beaumm um. with the cattle pouring dmm
the 121113 and amoae the meadow: from every direction»-long armies out chum. tr
«mung along with the rum, 1:: their pioturelqno cuppa and hide mm
and flowing ties anc ooirboy hate, riding ‘nature, behind and flanking either and

one branding time I am never nicely to forget. more were
2&0 head in the oormll. All night long the alcohol! at the calves that
were being weaned. had kept up an incision bawung, «flavored by thoir young
in adjoining corals. rho oeltoe besides being moaned were to be
‘branded. and 9.. load or yearling stun that had. acme up tron: tho stock
ya:-do were to be not onwgfg;-azfled but dehornod. my were his star: .-
olfirmoot mu grown. In some way or another one or the normals gave
before the mad. stampede of some at the penned cattle. They burn through
and with their bleeding held: shaking mm aide to side. they swept down upon
tin house. I use 111 the living room at the tine. who tint I knew that
something unusual. had happened was when there was a. goat tinny against
the autumn 1va11_o: the house. 1 heard the ma among or the men, toorin
down in ourouic o: the "doeglqu", as they can the cattle.

I loekedont offihovihdowanait seemed.-tomeao 1: thohounevrere
uurronndod by cattle. may were trampling over my mom» been and crashing
against the walls. some of them had actually oomo up on the vorandaln and
at-least one 1136.0? V88 amtahed.

of oonr lo. the mgitivea were soon driven book, but what: at lost
I dared. to venture out I out A night that shocks and nemoated me. All one
side oz! the house --it was painted white, with green root and gableo-....
was splashed thick with blood! I sat down on the ground weakly and 1 round.