THE WILL 3

the next morning just as it got light enough to see the mexican kids little truck was parked at the gates. tobey walk down to it and unlockled them and let him in then closed them behind him and locked the gates. they didnt want to be disturbed. at the house tobey filled two coffee cups and they sat at the kitchen table. he found out the boys name was roberto. he had worked for blake a good two years. he handled the sales of the hay and if blake had cattle in the corrals behind the house he fed them. blake paid him in cash by the day. tobey peeled the gate key off the ring and handed it to roberto. then gave him a twenty doller bill and told him to go get copys made. he would watch the hay sales until he returned. while roberto was gone back to town tobey walked around the property. he realised the corrals were big enough to hod a couple hundred head of cattle. they were made from guard rail and pipe. . they opened on the back side to a desert pasture. while he was alking around tobey was mulling the outfit over in his brain but the more he thought of it the more he thought he would make no decisio until he rode out the state permit. there was a back hoe parked on the property as well as large fork lift for loading the big bales that weighed over a thousand pounds.there was a small machine shop with a air compressor and welder tools were laid about on a work bench a large tool box stood to one side. tobey shook his head as he wlked back to the house. he couldnt be lieve he had a turn key deal laid right in his hands. as he got back to the house two trucks pulled in to load hay. for the next hour he was kept jumping loading hay he watched the gate hopeing to see roberto driveing in. finally he did and jumped right in to loading the pick ups. he explained the harware store was slow in opening he had to wait. when they got a break he handed tobey his key plus the change from the 20 he had been given. tobey quized him about the state graxeing permit. and found it laid directly in back of the thirty acres at the head quarter. tobey decided he better go find a good saddle horse or two. but roberto told him there was three that blake had and were running on the state land. he thought he could toll them in with some grain and beating on a pan where they could hear it. when they got a break fro loading hay he would try tobey was in a state of disbelief.. blake didnt seem to do anything. this kid did everything! the hay saless slowed down and tobey went to the house. soon he heard roberto banging a tim can on a post. when roberto came back to load a hay buyer he told tobey his horse was tied at the saddle room. going to the saddle rom he found a sorrel stocking leged gelding with a wide white stipe down his face. in the corral two other horses stood the saddle room was full of tack.. two good useing saddles a number of bridles ropes and piggin strings as well a assortment of odds and ends you would find at any cow out fit. when the sorrel was saddled he didnt hump up as any other horse that had been laid off for a period of time. tobey led him into a corral and moounted. the horse was broke to death and no buck what so ever.he rode out the back gate to see what this little ranch and its cattle looked like.