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<p>For several years the Nopalito had been making experiments with an English breed of cattle that looked down with aristocratic contempt upon the Texas longhorns. The experiments were found satisfactory; and a pasture had been set aside for the blue-bloods. The fame of them had gone forth into the chaparral and pear as far as men ride in saddles. Other ranches woke up, rubbed their eyes, and looked with new dissatisfaction upon the longhorns.</p>
<p>As a consequence, one day a sunburned, capable, silk-kerchiefed nonchalant youth, garnished with revolvers, and attended by three Mexican vaqueros, alighted at the Nopalito ranch and presented the following businesslike epistle to the queen thereof:</p>
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<p><abbr>Mrs.</abbr> Yeager—The Nopalito Ranch: <span epub:type="salutation">Dear Madam:</span> I am instructed by the owners of the Rancho Seco to purchase 100 head of two and three-year-old cows of the Sussex breed owned by you. If you can fill the order please deliver the cattle to the bearer; and a check will be forwarded to you at once. <span z3998:valediction">Respectfully</span>, <span z3998:signature">Webster Yeager</span>, Manager the Rancho Seco.</p>
<p><abbr>Mrs.</abbr> Yeager—The Nopalito Ranch: <span epub:type="salutation">Dear Madam:</span> I am instructed by the owners of the Rancho Seco to purchase 100 head of two and three-year-old cows of the Sussex breed owned by you. If you can fill the order please deliver the cattle to the bearer; and a check will be forwarded to you at once. <span epub:type="z3998:valediction">Respectfully</span>, <span epub:type="z3998:signature">Webster Yeager</span>, Manager the Rancho Seco.</p>
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<p>Business is business, even⁠—very scantily did it escape being written “especially”⁠—in a kingdom.</p>
<p>That night the 100 head of cattle were driven up from the pasture and penned in a corral near the ranch-house for delivery in the morning.</p>