Alderson could make out now it was a golden eagle, but still an eye-squinting distance away and high-flying easterly. "Sheep," he grunted, "are the reason so many eagles are back in the basin." Another rancher, Carsey Kemmerer, had caught sight of the eagle, too, and he drawled, "Maybe if enough come in they'll take care of this woolie problem." "Too many of them cleft-footed locusts," spoke up Tyman, with his eyes going to Lazy C owner Jim Graham. There'd been rancor in his words; Alderson figured that some of it had been brought on by the whiskey Tyman had been drinking.