nearly noon
Hereafter , I 'm going to make a killing off every two or three years . The boys have kept a list of all stray brands killed , and you can look them over and see how many of yours we got . We have baled all the stray hides separate , so they can be looked over . But it 's nearly noon , and you 'd better all ride up to the ranch for dinner -- they feed better up there than we do in camp . '' Rather than make a three-mile ride to the house , the visitors took dinner with the wagon , and about one o'clock Deweese and a vaquero came in , dragging a hide between them . June cordially greeted the callers , including Henry Annear , who represented the Las Norias ranch , though I suppose it was well known to every one present that there was no love lost between them . Uncle Lance asked our foreman for his list of outside brands , explaining that these men wished to look them over .