Weston," said the children's
mother. "Do you know where I can get another foreman?"
"Well, I'm sort of sorry to go myself, after I've seen these twins,"
replied the driver. "We don't very often see children out here. It's
too lonesome for 'em. But I just have to go. As for another foreman,
why, I guess you won't have any trouble picking one up. Any of the
cowboys will act as foreman until you get a regular one."
"I am glad to know that," said Mrs. Bobbsey.
"Is that the ranch?" asked Bert as the party of cowboys, riding around
the carriage, suddenly started off down a little hill, and Bert
pointed to several buildings clustered together at the foot of the
slope almost like the buildings at the lumber camp.
"Well, all this is Three Star ranch," answered the foreman, and he
swept his arm in a big circle across the prairie fields. "But those
are the ranch houses and corrals."
"I don't see any cows," said Nan, and this seemed to puzzle her,
"The cattle are mostly out on the different fields, or 'ranges', as we
call 'em, feeding," said Mr.
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