human
You surely have a grand lake in your back yard. I never enjoyed a swim so much in my life,
gpt
Suppose that you have water-holes in Texas and you boys fight over the swimming privileges just as the cattle men used to fight over keeping them for their stock,
human
We don't kill each other.
gpt
We're not so fond of a bath as all that, Uncle Norman. There are four creeks on the ranches, and one corner of Mom's takes in a slice of Pearl River.
human
In the spring we have it to burn. Sometimes it fills the gullies and part way up the canyons, but that's only in the Cap Rock section. Almost at the edge of the cliff the land stretches away for about three hundred miles and that's pretty dry. Some of the ranchers drove wells, but they had to do it a dozen times before they had any luck, and most of them are driven more than a hundred feet to reach water. They force it to the surface and make pools,
gpt
Is that for the cattle?
human
Yes, and to irrigate the grain.
gpt
Islands