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He grinned a little at the ht he'd ht away before he spoiled That's all there was to it Well, Keno did sink his head and pitch around ca He just stuck his nose into old Hagar's wikiup--and one sniff see"

He took a meditative bite of cake, finished the butterht him of the feminine mystery

"If you please, Mother Hart, as that Christel I squashed?"

"Vad? Was Vad in on it, htened up with a fresh chunk of cake in his hand "Was she scared?"

"Yes," his ht First the squaws--and, poor girl, Ilike a wild hyena--"

"Say, PLEASE don't telllike that," Grant interposed, with some sarcasm "I smashed her flat between hts out of her; and I'm told I should have appeared at s right here" Phoebe's tone was a challenge, whether sheto be her home from now on; and I want you boys to treat her nicer than you've been doing She's been here a week almost; and there ain't one of you that's made friends with her yet, or tried to, even You've played jokes on her, and told her things to scare her--andinfluence on you, andher on the place seeht It isn't the way I expected irl especially And I did hope Grant would behave better"

"Sure, he ought to Us boneheads don't know any better--but Grant's EDUCATED" Wally grinned and winked elaborately at his els that look as if they'd been stepped on," Grant defended hi If you boys would quit teasing the life out of her, I don't doubt but what, in six ued, with some heat