And as for your life, it is forfeit to your eagerness to buy my
herd of cattle so cheaply.
As far as his eye could reach, the country seemed absolutely blackened by innumerable
herds. No language, he says, could convey an adequate idea of the vast living mass thus presented to his eye.
I felt myself a match for the most ferocious bull in the
herd, and I know, had such a bull charged upon me, that I should have met it unflinchingly and quite coolly, and I know that I should have killed it.
A
herd of buffalo, startled by his approach, rose ready to charge or to fly.
There was not a tree, and, excepting the guanaco, which stood on the hill-top a watchful sentinel over its
herd, scarcely an animal or a bird.
The
herd paused for an instant at the edge of the slope, but Akela gave tongue in the full hunting-yell, and they pitched over one after the other, just as steamers shoot rapids, the sand and stones spurting up round them.
Inez and Ellen were placed in the edge of the thicket on the side farthest from the approaching
herd. Asinus was posted in the centre, in consideration of his nerves, and then the old man, with his three male companions, divided themselves in such a manner as they thought would enable them to turn the head of the rushing column, should it chance to approach too nigh their position.
``Never mind whom,'' answered Gurth, who had now got his
herd before him, and, with the aid of Fangs, was driving them down one of the long dim vistas which we have endeavoured to describe.
Instantly every eye turned toward one member of the
herd, a large fellow who evidently was the leader.
But the
herd had moved on some way during the night, and it was nine o'clock, and already very hot, before, by the broken trees, bruised leaves and bark, and smoking droppings, we knew that we could not be far from them.
They have a very particular custom, which obliges every man that hath a thousand cows to save every year one day's milk of all his
herd, and make a bath with it for his relations, entertaining them afterwards with a splendid feast.
The next day it snowed very hard, so that he could not take the
herd to their usual feeding places, but was obliged to keep them in the fold.
Older is the pleasure in the
herd than the pleasure in the ego: and as long as the good conscience is for the
herd, the bad conscience only saith: ego.
It had enraged him when he thought what an alarming thing this was--abortion among HIS cows--in Martin Wade's beautiful
herd! "God Almighty!" he had exclaimed, deciding as he took the calf from the mother to begin doctoring her at once.
Lena lived in the Norwegian settlement west of Squaw Creek, and she used to
herd her father's cattle in the open country between his place and the Shimerdas'.
