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The three bucks, grunting nity of their blankets, to the top rail of the corral, and roosted there to watch the horse-breaking; and for the present Clark held his peace

The squaws hovered there for a ar--she of runted a word or two, and they turned and plodded on to where the house stood hidden away in its nest of cool green For a space they stood outside the fence, peering warily into the shade, instinctively cautious in their e place, and detained also by the Indian etiquette which dee caar sufficient, she pulled her blanket tight across her broad hips, waddled to the gate, pulled it open with self-conscious assurance, and led the way soft-footedly around the house to where certain faint sounds betrayed the presence of Phoebe Hart in her stone ht of wide stone steps they stopped and huddled silently, until the black shadow of the in the West to seem startled when she suddenly discovered herself watched by three pair of beady black eyes, so she merely nodded, and laid down her butter-ladle to shake hands all around

"How, Hagar? How, Viney? How, Lucy? Heap glad to see you Bueno butterht be when it ca their arrival, their bashfulness did not extend to accepting offers of food or drink Three brown hands were eagerly outstretched--though it was the hand of Hagar which grasped first the big tin cup They not only drank, they guzzled, and afterward drew a fold of blanket across their rinned in pure animal satisfaction

"Bueno He-e-ap bueno!" they chorused appreciatively, and squatted at the top of the stone steps, watching Phoebe reat ball of yellow butter in its wooden bowl

After a brief silence, Hagar shook the tangle of unke in a soft

"Mebbyso To Turtle all ti," she announced "Stop all time corral, talk yo' boys Mebbyso heap likum drink yo' butter water Bueno"

When Phoebe nodded assent, Hagar went on to the nehich had brought her so soon to the ranch--the nehich satisfied both an old grudge and her love of gossip