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Every cowboy on our ranch has a Winchester rifle, and a lead pill from one of them makes a cattle thief sick.

Terry heard the blow that Fred gave the cattle thief and he knew what it meant, for the fellow sank down without uttering a word.

Oh, yes; but it is bad policy to let a cattle thief go loose, after he has been caught in the act.

And all went smoothly and well, till the case of one Robson, a notorious Redesdale horse and cattle-thief, came up for discussion.

As McLagan would show no mercy to his own brother were he a proven cattle-thief, so Jim loathed the crime in little less degree.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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