In the East they largely take the place of guns as fighting weapons, and I think I may say without boasting that I can hit the bull's-eye with them as well as most men.
But suppose Mr.Brown _uses_ the water?
Suppose there is none left to turn back into the creek channel when he is through?
He has a large force of men at work running laterals from the main ditch, which carries the water up and over the high land, and I took the liberty of following his lines of stakes.

As you would put it, William, he seems about to irrigate the whole of northern Montana; certainly his stakes cover the whole creek bottom, both above and below the main ditch, and also the bench land above." "Hell! Anything else ?" "I believe not--except that he has completed his fencing and has turned in a large number of cattle.

I say completed, though strictly speaking he has not.

He has completed the great field south of the creek and east of us.

But Mr.Walland was saying that Brown intends to fence a tract to the north of us, either this fall or early in the spring.