The water was a muddy brown and the current fast, but the cattle only had to swim a few yards. They shot from downriver, and Gus opened up on them at once. It's hard work just getting drunk when things are this loud. He had discovered that if he talked a lot and was soothing in what he said it had a good effect on the horse he was working with.
We ain't cowboys, so what are we then? Travelers, Dan said. Lorena was teaching the girls to play cards. For ten days the big boy was the friendliest person in the outfit. Of course, he hadn't been for ten years--the old crew was mostly a memory, though Pea and Deets were still there, and Gus, in his strange way.
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