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Bo's tones indicated that she was ready to cry Helen, realizing Bo had not been hurt, began to laugh Her sister was the funniest-looking object that had ever co--at er

"Me laugh-ing? N-never, Bo," replied Helen "Can't you see I'm just--just--"

"See? You idiot! my eyes are full of et even"

Dale was laughing, too, but noiselessly, and Bo, being blind for the moment, could not be aware of that By this tihed as she had never laughed before When Helen forgot herself so far as to roll on the ground it was indeed a laughingfra it at the spring, began to wipe the mud off Bo's face But that did not serve Bo asked to be led to the water, where she knelt and, with splashing, washed out her eyes, and then her face, and then the bedraggled strands of hair

"Thatdidn't break my neck, but he rooted ot up "Please let !"

"Ex-cusehis sides

Bo gazed after him and then back at Helen

"I suppose if I'd been kicked and sh," she said And then she -suit! What a ht Nell, I rode that wild pony--the sun-of-a-gun! I rode hih all you want It was funny But if you want to square yourself with ht Helen heard Dale sternly calling Pedro She felt so happened, and she soon went to sleep again At theht I think there are lions workin' over the ridge somewhere I heard one scream"

"Scream?" inquired Bo, with interest

"Yes, an' if you ever hear a lion screaar cry, as Roy calls it, is the wildest to be heard in the woods A wolf howls He is sad, hungry, and wild But a cougar seems human an' dyin' an' wild We'll saddle up an' ride over there Maybe Pedro will tree a lion Bo, if he does will you shoot it?"