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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Wyoming by William MacLeod Raine: biscuits and gravy, and to drink cupfuls of hot, black coffee.
Before sun rose every man was at his post far up on the Squaw
Creek ridges ready to begin the drive.
Later in the day Helen rode to the parade grounds, toward which a
stream of cattle was pouring down the canyon of the creek. Every
gulch tributary to the creek contributed its quota of wild cows
and calves. These came romping down the canyon mouth, where four
picked men, with a bunch of tame cows in front of them, stopped
the rush of flying cattle. Lunch was omitted, and branding began
at once. Every calf belonging to a Lazy D cow, after being roped
and tied, was flanked with the great D which indicated its
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