"Thousands of cattle"

Wilson Gray hwgray at GMAIL.COM
Sat Feb 14 03:41:08 UTC 2009


Heard on TV:

"Ten cowboys could herd _thousands_ of cattle."


Hopefully, in cattle country, the phrase is still "thousands of _head_
of cattle."

-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"---a strange complaint to
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