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It can't be no rougher than Texas used to be. It seemed to him that the last man had been an incompetent horsethief named Webster Witter, who had rustled horses in the Blanco country at one time. I won't have no pigs around, Louisa said. Again he heard the zing of bullets cutting the prairie grass.

You oughtn't to provoke me like that, he said, looking a little hangdog. As the sun lit the grass, he rode east along the road of buffalo bones. Lack of water was beginning to tell on the horses, and the weaker cattle were barely stumbling along. He was aware that he had chosen a bad moment to make his scene--right after breakfast, with many of the hands standing around.