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"Can you?" queried Helen

"Can I what?" Bo was now thoroughly awake and lay there staring at her sister

"Why--get up"

"I'd like to knohy not," retorted Bo, as she ot one ar And she uttered the most piteous littleto be a Western girl you'd better have spunk enough to move"

"A-huh!" ejaculated Bo Then she rolled over, not without groans, and, once upon her face, she raised herself on her hands and turned to a sitting posture "Where's everybody? Oh, Nell, it's perfectly lovely here Paradise!"

Helen looked around A fire was sht Wonderful distant colors seelance as she tried to fix it upon near-by objects A beautiful little green tent or shack had been erected out of spruce boughs It had a slanting roof that sloped all the way fro in front was closed, as were the sides The spruce boughs appeared all to be laid in the sa it a srown there

"That lean-to wasn't there last night?" inquired Bo

"I didn't see it Lean-to? Where'd you get that name?"

"It's Western, my dear I'll bet they put it up for us Sure, I see our bags inside Let's get up It irls had considerable fun as well as pain in getting up and keeping each other erect until their lihted with the spruce lean-to It faced the open and stood just under the wide-spreading shelf of rock The tiny outlet fro flowed beside it and spilled its clear water over a stone, to fall into a little pool The floor of this woodland habitation consisted of tips of spruce boughs to about a foot in depth, all laid one way, sy, and so sweetly odorous that the air seee, and ith use of the cold water, brush and comb, and clean blouses, theythe excruciating aches Then they went out to the ca objects near at hand Then siht Helen saw a beautiful doe approaching under the trees Dale walked beside it