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Reasoning that every occupation has drawbacks of some kind, Wallie bore these sh there were times when he confessed that The Happy Fa and aht

He never would have suspected, for instance, that J Harry Stott, who in his own environment was a person of some little consequence, in another could appear a co had such a wolfish appetite, or that ten cents looked larger to Mr Appel than a dollar did to Pink, or that Old Penrose was vain as a peacock about his looks Still, Wallie consoled himself, everyone had his idiosyncrasies, and if they had not had these they ht have had worse ones

To-day there was the usual co off, and then when Wallie was ready to boost Aunt Lizzie on her horse she was nowhere to be found She was not in her tent, nor had she fallen over the ereat store by her afternoon rides deepened the lasses, declared he saw so above a sht ranch life chiefly because he said he was sick of cities andnow spentthe road in the hope of seeing so and he had come to be as excited when he saw a load of hay as if he had discovered a planet

He passed the glasses to Wallie, who adjusted them and immediately nodded: "That's somebody in the draw; it must be Aunt Lizzie"

There was no doubt about it when she ca, as she went, for ave a sharp exclamation, for, in the moment that they watched her, a small herd of the Texas cattle came around a hill and also saw her They stopped short, and looked at the strange figure Then, like a band of curious antelope, they edged a little closer It ht be that they would not attack her, but, if they did, it was certain they would gore her to death unless so his own horse and dragging Aunt Lizzie's stubborn white pony behind hi into the Canby lease and sprang into the saddle

He kept his eyes fixed on the cattle as he rode toward Aunt Lizzie,back obstinately on the bridle, but, in any case, he could not have seen Helene Spenceley and Canby riding from the opposite direction, for they were still on the other side of a se which hid them