Howdy Litl Rooster, Slim, and Tom! What a pleasent surprise!
Rooster, I tried to find some "Slow Elk" to add to your herd or to slaughter myself but none came by! Oh well.....
Yes, of course you can use the corral. Thanks for the beef and I will be glad to make good use of it. Please ask that cosie Del if he would be interested in the testicles. I hear they can make some good eatin'. I have never tried them but some cowboys that have passed through here swear by them. Please pass along this recipe that they left with me. Some of those cowboy considered them a wonderful elixir or aphrodisiac. Have these been castrated yet? I didn't get close enough to look.
<Arthor's note: At roundup, cowboys enjoyed a delicacy called calf fries, mountain oysters, or prairie oysters. Whatever the term, these fried or roasted calves' testicles made gourmet eating for cowmen. Obviously, a large number of these prize delicacies could be gathered when hands castrated calves during roundup. Preparation might consist of nothing more than tossing the testicles into a branding fire and waiting for them to pop open, ready to eat. You could soaking the mess in salt water for an hour then drying them. The oysters are then seasoned, rolled in flour or cornmeal, and fried in hot grease until crisp-- a great end to a long day of branding. Another variant suggest soaking the harvest in buttermilk instead of salt water. >