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So, while Good Indian stood and looked on with lips as tightly drawn as the other's, he seared a circle around the wound--a circle which bit deep and drew apart the gashes like lips opened for protest He regarded critically his handiwork, muttered a "Bueno" under his breath, knocked the ashes fro-place beneath his blanket Then he picked up his moccasin

"Theustedly "Heap fool esture with thuo quick" He began gingerly trying to force the moccasin upon his foot, his mouth draith the look of one who considers that he has been hardly used

"How you get hos "You got horse?"

Peppajee shook his head, reached for his knife, and slit the"Mebbyso heap walk," he stated si of the kind," Good Indian retorted "You come down and take a horse What for you all ti then what had brought theer all time fish--no er bueno--catchuot slowly and painfully upon his feet--rather, upon one foot When Good Indian held out a steadying arm, he accepted it, and leaned rather heavily

"Yo' eyes sick," said Peppajee, and grinned sardonically "Yo' eyes see all ti Yo' catchum squaw, bimeby mebbyso see plenty mo' Me no catchum sick eye Mebbyso me see heap plenty"

"What you see, you all tier?"

But Peppajee, hobbling where hecarefully where a slanting bowlder offered a few feet of s hold of Good Indian's offered arether, and refused to answer So they cae beside the rapids, where a thin wisp of srant breeze which played with the ripples and swayed languidly the smaller branches of the nearby trees

Only Donny was there, sitting disgruntled upon thebecause the others had taken all the fishing-tackle that was of any account, and had left him to make shift with one bent, dulled hook, a lump of fat pork, and a dozen feet of line

"And I can catch ly and without preface, waving a dirty hand contemptuously at the despised tackle when the two cairls along! They've got to have the best rods and tackle, and all they'll do will be to snag lines and lose leaders and hooks, and giggle alla squeal Aw--DARN girls!"