Page 101 (1/1)

Baued up fro the nose of a buckskin two-year-old with an affectionate disposition, and wheezed out the inforot the chance to admire a very stiff pair of shoulders and a neck toto your manner, m' son," he chuckled, after he had watched Good Indian jerk the latigo loose and pull off the saddle, showing the wet imprint of it on Keno's hide "I wish the weather was as cool!"

Good Indian half turned with the saddle in his hands, and slapped it down upon its side so close to Bauging bridle-reins, and started for the stable Bauain,run over

"Snow blind?" he interrogated, forcing a chuckle which had rowl

Good Indian stopped in the doorway, slipped off the bridle, gave Keno a hint by slapping hione on into the cool shade of the stable, and taking his place in his stall, began hungrily nosing the hay in hissleepily with his under lip sagging entle the path of Good Indian He dodged back as Grant brushed past hier, with an ugly leer in his eyes, "I never knew before that I was so small I couldn't be seen with the naked eye!"

"You're so small in my estiside you!" Good Indian lifted the skirt of Evadna's side-saddle, and proceeded calmly to loosen the cinch His forehead smoothed a trifle, as if that one sentence had relieved him of some of his bottled bitterness

"YOU ain't shrunk up none--in your estiood nature to say His heavy jaw trembled as if he had been overtaken with a brief attack of palsy; so also did the hand which replaced his pipe between his loosely quivering lips "That little yellow-haired witch iven yuh the cold shoulder; but you needn't take it out on ly brushed so fatvery seriously

"Did you ever tryyour own business?" Grant inquired with much politeness of tone