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"He stole my turkey!"

"Tolided round rather sheepishly "Now lie down an' behave"

To on his paith his beautiful tawny eyes, light and piercing, fixed upon the hunter

"Don't grab," said Dale, holding out a piece of turkey Whereupon Tom took it less voraciously

As it happened, the little bear cub saw this transaction, and he plainly indicated his opinion of the preference shown to Tom

"Oh, the dear!" exclaimed Bo "He means it's not fair Coroup until called by Dale Then he scraht Bo al acquainted with him Tom plainly showed his jealousy of Bud, and Bud likewise showed his fear of the great cat

Helen could not believe the evidence of her eyes--that she was in the woods cal of sweet, wild-flavored rown mountain lion lay on one side of her and a baby brown bear sat on the other--that a strange hunter, a man of the forest, there in his lonely and isolated fastness, appealed to the romance in her and interested her as no one else she had ever met

When the wonderful meal was at last finished Bo enticed the bear cub around to the careat co Bo play, was inclined to envy her Noout of it She adapted herself She, who could have a good ti, would find the hours sweet and fleeting in this beautiful park of onders

But merely objective actions--merely physical movements, had never yet contented Helen She could run and climb and ride and play with hearty and healthy abandon, but those things would not suffice long for her, and her mind needed food Helen was a thinker One reason she had desired toup a life of the open, of action, she ht think and dream and brood less And here she was in the wild West, after the three most strenuously active days of her career, and still the saiant revolved her mind and turned it upon herself and upon all she saw

"What can I do?" she asked Bo, almost helplessly

"Why, rest, you silly!" retorted Bo "You walk like an old, crippled wo"