Indeed Weary told three or four of the most indignant settlers, next day, where they would find their cattle.

But he added that the feed was pretty good back there, and advised them to leave the stock out there for the present.
"It isn't going to do you fellows any good to rear up on your hind legs and make a holler," he said calmly.

"We haven't hurt your cattle.

We don't want to have trouble with anybody.

But we're pretty sure to have a fine, large row with our neighbors if they don't keep on their own side the fence." That fence was growing to be more than a mere figure of speech The Happy Family did not love the digging of post-holes and the stretching of barbed wire; on the contrary they hated it so deeply that you could not get a civil word out of one of them while the work went on; yet they put in long hours at the fence-building.
They had to take the work in shifts on account of having their own cattle to watch day and night.