This in later years would have been no very great undertaking, but at that time "squeezers" and branding "chutes" were not known.

Our corrals were primitive and not suited for the work, and our cattle extraordinarily wild and not accustomed to control of any kind.

Indeed, the men we had bought out had sold to us for the simple reason that they could not properly handle them.

The four-legged beasties had got beyond their control, and many of them had almost become wild animals.

These cattle, too, had very little of the "improved" character in them.