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"Second night before we left hohts! Oh, we've slept some"

"I'll bet I ht here--under this tree--with no covering?"

"It looks so," replied Helen, dubiously

"How perfectly lovely!" exclaih the pines"

"See over Wouldn't it be awful if we had a storhtfully "It ain Helen felt a quality of inevitableness in Bo It was so that had appeared only practical in the humdrum home life in St Joseph All of a sudden Helen received a flash of wondering thought--a thrilling consciousness that she and Bo had begun to develop in a new and wild environrowth! Bo, being younger, more impressionable, with eleer more swiftly Helen wondered if she could yield to her own leaning to the pri e who did not think

Helen saw Dale stand erect once aze into the forest

"Reckon Roy ain't coood" Then he turned to the girls "Supper's ready"

The girls responded with a spirit greater than their activity And they ate like famished children that had been lost in the woods Dale attended theht we'll have meat," he said

"What kind?" asked Bo

"Wild turkey or deer Maybe both, if you like But it's well to take wild meat slow An' turkey--that 'll reedily "I've heard of wild turkey"

When they had finished Dale ate his irls, and occasionally replying briefly to soan to wash the pots and pans, and almost dark by the time his duties appeared ended Then he replenished the cairls leaned coainst the saddles

"Nell, I'll keel over in asupper"

"I don't see how I can sleep, and I know I can't stay awake," rejoined Helen