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Identifier: outing55newy (find matches)
Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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bullet that lifted his hat—itwas his hair. He was that shocked. Mac wont let up on him though.said a tall puncher who had been longat Bar C : the kind to let a nester get the best of him. Im looking for onusual dccommented the wagon boss. We-allknow that Monty aint no springchicken. That time he shot HankWilliams over on Theres more than cattle stealing inthis case, said the horse wrangler. Ireckon Miss McVea might tell some-thing about Monty takin up that claimon Shallow Bend. A silence fell around the fire. Theboys had heard—and resented—McVallusion to the unfitness of any cow-puncher to become lis sc :i-in-law.Sympathy for Monty was bound toshow. I reckon one man is as good as an-other in these here p J a tallpuncher presently. Heads in the shadows bobbed affirma-tively. Im banking on Monty to win handsdown, commented the wagon boss. In the darkness the range boss sawthe significant grins that swept aroundthe circle. Then his own faceturned toward the distance and thesilence.
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A FLASH SHOT FROM MONTY S PISTOL: SMOKE CURLED FROM THE MUZZLE. IV Monty thrived amazingly. His smallherd grew to hundreds, and his hun-dreds roamed the range unmolested.Early in his new venture he adopted abrand—the Double Cross. The adop-tion of this brand provoked the mem-bers of the Bar Cross to grim humorand sent McVea into transports of bitteranger. The manager looked upon Montysuse of this brand as an act of defiance,and though he made no direct charge, the men of the outfit began to under-stand that McVea suspected Monty ofplanning to appropriate Bar Cross stockas opportunity offered. Vigilance alonewould prevent the merging of the BarCross brand into that of the DoubleCross. The merging of the two brands wasa simple problem in pyrography. TheBar Cross sign, applied with a red hotiron to McVeas cattle, read thus, f-, which might readily be trans-formed into the Double Cross by theaddition of a vertical bar. Viewed 310 THE DOUBLE CROSS 3 from a mechanical standpoint the op-er

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