Sunday's Colt & Other Stories (2009)
“Old Dil Townsen was never much to work for anyhow, so Ty Lee and Sam figured if they were going to risk life and limb chasing wild cattle through the mesquite and thorns for two bits a head they might as well be doing it on their own for two dollars. There were plenty of Longhorns still prowling the brush country south of San Antonio free for the taking and the markets in New Orleans were high. Some said a man could get six dollars Yankee gold for good cattle and the boys figured they could hav...e a couple of hundred head there in three months. That was more money than them old boys had seen since they came to Texas during the war—certainly more than they would ever even smell working for that scrawny swindler, Townsen. Any man who begrudged good maverickers extra flour and coffee after they branded a hundred head from only two weeks work was nothing more than a skinflint and potential horse cutter. They were the best there was at catching cimarrone—bar none. Let Old Dil just try to replace them.MoreLess
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