But mine was an extremely disagreeable position.
During this round-up I noticed that M----was carefully gathering all the steers and bulls of any age he could find.

I notified my people and asked them to send the sheriff down to help me.

Things were coming to a point as it were; it was evidently M----'s intention to drive the steers out of the territory, knowing that once over the Texas line we could no longer enjoin him.

His whole force of men depended on this to get their wages out of these steers, as every one of them was at least three months in arrears, some of them six, twelve, and even eighteen months.

Thus I knew they would make every effort to succeed in the drive and would be desperate men to interfere with.