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Show Page 15 for coyote bait. They'd likely starve her to death or feed her too much. You're the only one I can trust her with Slippery." "Make you a deal," offered the grizzled ranchhand. "Bring me some chawing tobakker and some candy and I'll do it. "And don't you go listening to those things Sam and Josephine say about yore little calf," he continued. "That Dixie Burr is the start of a big herd of cattle, good uns too, the kind that have sense and can find their own feed, not like them pampered Durhams yore ma and pa raise. I don't like them no-how." So Ann left Dixie Burr with Slippery Jim and went with her father to Rock Springs. When she asked Mr. Bassett to take her to see Mr. Fisher, the general manager of the Middlesex Cattle Company, he did so without asking any questions. Perhaps he suspected Ann had a plan that would let her keep Dixie Burr. If he had known what her plan was, he might not have been so willing to take her along. In Mr. Fisher's office Ann explained that she had one of his longhorn dogies at home. Then she offered him a trade: she'd keep Dixie Burr; Mr. Fisher could have one of her father's prized, purebred Durham steers. "And do you have your father's permission to make me this offer?" asked Mr. Fisher, chuckling at the surprised look on Mr. Bassett's face. |