an hour after midnight
Everything on the south side of the Nueces between the river and the wagon was thrown together on the second round-up of the day , which yielded less than two hundred cattle for our beef herd . But when we went into camp , dividing into squads for night-herding , the day 's work was satisfactory to the ranchero . Dan Happersett was given five vaqueros and stood the first watch or until one A.M. Glenn Gallup and myself took the remainder of the men and stood guard until morning . When Happersett called our guard an hour after midnight , he said to Gallup and me as we were pulling on our boots : `` About a dozen big steers have n't laid down . There 's only one of them that has given any trouble . He 's a pinto that we cut in the first round-up in the morning . He has made two breaks already to get away , and if you do n't watch him close , he 'll surely give you the slip . ''