Ten Years a Cowboy

lite is sometimes pleasant, sometimes dreary; there is plenty of exposure and not a little discomfort; there is generally good health, and consequently good temper; there are all sorts and conditions of men, who meet you on perfect equality, whether better or worse than yourself; your wants are few, as generally you have to satisfy them yourself. It is wonderful how you lop off necessities when they burden your time and occupations. You have entered on a new life in a new world. It is not all admirable, for good and 36 (385) 98 CATTLS. eril are everywhere balanced. With freedom in forming new opinions, you are apt to grow disdainful of the small niceties of civilization; the trammels of society are cast off, leading to a dangerous drop into rude habits and ill-restrained language; the impossibility of fulfilling all the refinements of the toilet engenders a disregard of personal neatness. Much can not be helped; some might be avoided. Young men are naturally the more easily influenced by their surroundings, and tall too readily into the habits and tricks of speech most honored on the prairies. This is the main educational disadvantage to young men starting alone in the West, for good breeding has to be nurtured by descent and association; coarseness may be learned in a day. THE GAINS IN CATTLE KANCHINO. We have all heard of the gains in cattle-ranching ?is not thirty per cent, a common return? Mov- rick, one of the cattle-kings, began, it is pointed... --This text refers to the Paperback edition.