The Happy Family

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Pink because he knew well the country and because Irish who also knew it well refused pointblank to go into it again even as a rep rode alone except for his horses down into the range of the Rocking R. General roundup was about to start down that way and there was stock bought by the Flying U which ranged north of the Bear Paws. It so happened that the owner of the Rocking R was entertaining a party of friends at the ranch; it also happened that the friends were quite new to the West and its ways and they were intensely interested in all pertaining thereto. Pink gathered that much from the crew besides observing much for himself. Hence what follows after. Sherwood Branciforte was down in the blacksmith shop at the Rocking R watching one Andy Green hammer a spur-shank straight. Andy was what he himself called a tamer of wild ones and he was hard upon his riding gear. Sherwood had that morning watched with much admiration the bending of that same spur-shank and his respect for Andy was beautiful to behold.