dogies

On his father’s canvases, cowboys galloped after stray dogies or dozed in bluebonnets, Indians rode in canyon shadow, and longhorn and buffalo stood as proud as stock-show champions.

They rounded up the pastures then, one after the other, and soon the great herd of dogies was strung out on the road.

"Roll on, roll on, Roll on, li'l' dogies, roll——" He broke off suddenly, staring at the fringe of the waving mesquite.

Her eyes were on the corral, from which her father was driving the dogies.

I told him so right out, an' he kind of laughed an' said maybe I'd need it all, an' anyhow, them cattle was all grade Herefords, an' was worth more to winter than common dogies.