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All, that is, save Good Indian himself, and perhaps one other

Peaceful cleared his white mustache and beard from a few stray drops of coffee and let his mild blue eyes travel slowly around the table, fro face to another

"Now the exciteetic tones, "it wouldn't be a bad idea for you boys to get to work and throw the water back where it belongs I dunno but what the garden's spoiled already; but the s up to the Injun camp," spoke up Gene "We wanted to see--"

"You'll have to do soet there," Good Indian informed the"

"Huh! What were YOU doing up there that ti the sun rise" His lips smiled over the retort, but his eyes did not "I'll lower the water in your htly, "so you won't have to wear rubber-boots when you go to skilance as she caet at it right away," he said cheerfully, picked up his hat, and went out whistling Then he put his head in at the door "Say," he called, "does anybody knohere that long-handled shovel is?" Again he eyed Evadna without see to see her at all

"If it isn't down at the stable," said Jack soberly, "or by the apple-cellar or so the ditches as far up as the big meadow And if you don't run across it there--" The door slahed with his eyes fast shut and three diarded him and all her little world with frank disapproval

"Upon h, after what has happened on this place," she said dismally, "or--WHISTLE, after--" Her lips quivered a little She was a distressed Christel, if ever there was one

Wally snorted "Want us to go CRYING around because the row's over?" he deht to wear crepe, I suppose--because he ain't on ice this ht to go around with our jaws hanging down so you could step on 'es is, I didn't get a whack at the old devilspeech for Wally to make, and he made it with deliberate malice