"Oh! the punchers they have a round-up for the critters every fall, an' so you see they kind of keep 'em low in stock. Then besides, ever since they took to payin' a bounty for wolf scalps, men go out to hunt for the same when they ain't got nothin' else to do. They ain't aplenty about this part of the country nowadays. I reckon as how that's why Wolf Harkness took to raisin' the critters."