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"Howdy, Peppajee? How your foot? Pretty well, mebbyso?"

"Mebbyso bueno Sun come two tiloated over the gift as he laid it down beside hiie reached up to feel her hatpins and to pat her hair, "I wish you'd watch Saunders Hiood I think him bad I can't keep an eye on hily at his bandages "No can watchum"

"Well, but you could tell so to the Harts You like Harts You tell somebody to watch Saunders"

"Indians pikeway--ketchuie drew in her breath for further argument, decided that it was not worth while, and touched up her horse with the whip "Good-by," she called back, and saw that Peppajee was looking after her with his eyes, while his face was turned i to talk to as a stump," she paid tribute to his unassailable cal of the trouble I had packing that candy to you--you ungrateful old devil" With which unladylike remark she dismissed him from her mind as a possible ally

At the ranch, the boys were enthusiastically blistering pal the water away from the ditches that crossed the disputed tracts so that the trespassers there should have none in which to pan gold--or to pretend that they were panning gold Since the whole ranch was irrigated by springs running out here and there from under the bluff, and all the ditches ran to meadow and orchard and patches of ss could not well be stopped fro was not to be done in a minute

And since there were four boys with decided ideas upon the subject--ideas which harmonized only in the funda was not to be done without u the water all into a sandy hollohere much of it would seep away and a lake would do no har at least a hundred yards of new ditch, h rocky soil

Jack wanted to close all the headgates and just let the water go where it wanted to--which was easy enough, but ineffective, because most of it found its way into the ditches farther down the slope