A grizzly bear could walk in and eat him and his horse both, and they wouldn't be missed until breakfast the next day. He also found that he couldn't breathe easily. He cut down a small salt-cedar and made a crude axle, fixing the sign between the two buggy wheels. Whoever it was wouldn't speak to him, and yet he continued to ask questions.
He was not used to the crutch and he made poor time. There's two heifers bogged yet, he said. They were several miles from the Nueces and the sun was low. They had no great finesse, but they were dogged, and would eventually get the creature down.
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