A crowd moving about was "milling around." Dancing the old "round dances" were sometimes called "milling." Occasionally dancers and dancing were referred to as "the night herd is a-running," or "the herd, it got to milling when the fiddle got in tune."

Wyatt ( Long) Heard, of Uvalde county, Texas, drifted through Banner county, on the last roundup. He liked the social early times, but had the fault of getting seriously in earnest with the girls he liked best. Those early girls liked a good time, but none of them cared anything about "a solid fellow."

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One with whom Wyatt had gone several times, when asked by him to attend another party, plead a previous engagement. She appeared at the party with Grant Mills.

Homer Welker, a wag of the range, knew of the affair and when he got the proper surroundings he said : "The only way to stop a "Heard" is to get it to "Mill." Then he snorted. Every body but Heard appreciated the joke.

There were a lot of pranks pulled off at parties and dances, and where some "puncher's" horse, or buggy team was tied at the gate or corral of a place where one of the first girls were known to reside. I found my broncho untied late one night when I was starting for home. The "fool critter" traveled ahead of me in the moonlight from fifty to one hundred yards distant, all the way. It was a nice seven mile walk. I never knew who did the untying.