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I rode it

I rode it in the mud in less than two hours just about ten miles. But that wasnt a circumstance to other experiences. We had driven about three hundred horses and mules, and after disposing of over two thirds of them, my employer was compelled to return home, leaving me to dispose of the remainder. I was a fair salesman, and rather than carry the remnant of the herd with me, made headquarters with a man who owned a large canebrake pasture. It was a convenient stoppingplace, and the stock did well on the young cane. Every week i would drive to some distant town eighteen or twenty head, or as many as i could handle alone. Sometimes i would sell out in a few days, and then again it would