"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
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
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