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Sketches of the Cattle Trade 141: Some [...] are generally ‘done for’ in a thorough manner, or wounded so as to be miserable cripples for life.at do for, v.
Sketches of the Cattle Trade 141: Some [...] are generally ‘done for’ in a thorough manner, or wounded so as to be miserable cripples for life. Sketches of the Cattle Trade 187: A part of the committee would be unavoidably absent [...] or off on a big drunk.at drunk, n.
Sketches of the Cattle Trade 49: To say that he ‘eat dirt’ or got down low would be putting it mild.at eat dirt (v.) under eat, v.
Sketches of the Cattle Trade 375: A ‘greaser’ shepherd.at greaser, adj.
Sketches of the Cattle Trade 141: The keepers of those ‘hell’s half acres’ find some pretext arising from ‘business jealousies’ or other causes, to suddenly become belligerent.at hell’s half acre (n.) under hell, n.
Sketches of the Cattle Trade 390: He concluded that a train load of cookstoves would be a ‘hit.’ [...] Of course the profits were enormous.at hit, n.
Sketches of the Cattle Trade 205: An affront or slight, real or imaginary, is cause sufficient for him to unlimber one of [sic] more ‘mountain howitzers’ invariably found strapped to his person.at howitzer, n.
Sketches of the Cattle Trade 408: If Uncle Samuel fails to provide the prequisite – a railroad [...] why, Jonathan will indignantly stay in the land wherein he is a dependent tenant.at Jonathan, n.
Sketches of the Cattle Trade 292: The hurrying tramp of solicitors, vulgarly, but not inappropriately, called ‘Scalpers’.at scalper (n.) under scalp, v.1
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