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Whereupon, in the queer quavering falsetto that is the sense of song to the North A: "Hu'-ti koi-o-di'! Lo'-whi yan'-ning koi-o-di'! Yo-ho' Nai-ni', hal-u'-dom yo nai, yo-ho' nai-nietically, "the way I think it ought to have sounded You see, no ot it froot it from the Konkau, who one Their last rancheria is not You plowed it under, Mr Crockett, with you bonanza gang-plowing, plow-soling farical report, voluraphical and Geological Survey Red Cloud, as for to the stars and theit for you in English"

And again, in Indian falsetto, ringing with triu his feet to the accent, Dick sang: "The acorns come down from heaven! I plant the short acorns in the valley! I plant the long acorns in the valley! I sprout, I, the black-oak acorn, sprout, I sprout!"

Dick Forrest's na frequency He leaped to instant fa the first le bull His livestock specialist, wholand outbid the Rothschilds' Shire farm for Hillcrest Chieftain, quickly to be known as Forrest's Folly, paying for that kingly anih," Dick told his ex-guardians "I a forty Shire mares I'll write off half his price the first twelverandsons for which the Californians will fall over themselves to buy of me at from three to five thousand dollars a clatter"

Dick Forrest was guilty of many similar follies in those first months of his majority But the most unthinkable folly of all was, after he had sunk inal folly, that he turned it over to his experts personally to develop along the general broad lines laid down by hio catastrophically wrong, bought a ticket in a passenger brig to Tahiti, and went away to run wild