Crossword-Solution: CHIQUITO 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 22

Percival Saint Clair.' "I herded sheep for five days on the Rancho Chiquito; and then the wool entered my soul.

And a couple of hours afterward one Percival Saint Clair, an ex-sheep-herder of the Rancho Chiquito, might have been seen, with a hundred and nine dollars--wages and blood-money--in his pocket, riding south on another horse belonging to said ranch." The red-faced man paused and listened.

They based this assertion and their claim upon the land upon the demonstrated facts that the beginning corner of the Denny survey was plainly identified; that its field notes called to run west 5,760 varas, and then called for Chiquito River; thence it ran south, with the meanders—and so on—and that the Chiquito River was, on the ground, fully a mile farther west from the point reached by course and distance.

The field notes contained no other object that survived—no tree, no natural object save Chiquito River, and it was a mile wrong there.

Her mother had also sold a part, and she herself had succeeded to this western portion, along Chiquito River.