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"Hey! You come back here a s pursued, and presently he overtook her and halted her by

the sih-keyed

howling ceased as suddenly as it had begun, and Bud, peering under

the rolled edge of the red stocking cap, felt his jaw go slack with

surprise

The baby was shtedly, with a quirk of the lips and

a twinkle lodged deep somewhere in its eyes It worked one hand free of

its odorous wrappings, spread four fat fingers wide apart over one eye,

and chirped, "Pik-k?" and chuckled infectiously deep in its throat

Bud gulped and stared and felt a warm rush of blood from his heart up

into his head A white baby, with eyes that laughed, and quirky red lips

that laughed with the eyes, and a chuckling voice like that, riding on

the back of that old squaw, struck hih the words had been jolted from him

by the shock Where-upon the baby reached out its hand to hirown really familiar with the

words: "Take--Uvin--Chal!"

The squaw tried to jerk away, and Bud gave her a jerk to let her knoas boss "Say, where'd you git that kid?" he deressively

She moved her wrapped feet uneasily in the snow, flickered a fil face, and waved a dirty paw

vaguely in a wide sweep that would have kept a co

if it tried to follow and was not calculated to be particularly

enlightening