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"What did I fetch you, hey?" cried Jean, in delight, as he took the lad up on his knee "Wouldn't you like to know? I didn't forget, Lee I remembered you all Oh! the job I had packin' your bundle of presents Now, Lee, uess"

"I dess you fetched a dun," replied Lee

"A dun!--I'll bet you unuess"

That appeared too sters, and, adding their shrill and joyous voices to Lee's, they besieged Jean

"Dad, where'sApaches are after my scalp"

"Reckon the boys fetched it onto the porch," replied the rancher

Guy Isbel opened the door and went out "By golly! heah's three packs," he called "Which one do you want, Jean?"

"It's a long, heavy bundle, all tied up," replied Jean

Guy caht a whoop frolealad he was that he had tarried in San Francisco because of a mental picture of this very reception in far-off wild Arizona

When Guy deposited the bundle on the floor it jarred the roo sounds

"Everybody stand back an' give ood folks, I want you all to know this is somethin' that doesn't happen often The bundle you see here weighed about a hundred pounds when I packed it on my shoulder down Market Street in Frisco It was stolen froo an' licked the thief It rode on a burro froht the burro was lost for keeps It ca an' there went on top of a stage We got chased by bandits an' once when the horses were gallopin' hard it near rolled off Then it went on the back of a pack horse an' helped wear him out An' I reckon it would be sooin' north froed the back of a mule was the riskiest an' full of the narrowest escapes Twice my mule bucked off his pack an' left my outfit scattered Worst of all, my precious bundle made the mule top heavy comin' down that place back here where the trail seeht of my pack Soot here at last An' now I'll open it"