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"John, we'd do more than that if we had to"

They were saddled and on thebehind Level parks and level forests led one after another to long slopes and steep descents, all growing sunnier and greener as the altitude dirouse, turkeys and deer, and less tarew aar had to be watched and called often to keep hi trip," said Dale "But I'oin' to take him Some way or other he ," replied John "Soars But I never was"

"Nor ive me a darn uncanny feelin'"

Thenoiselessly beside his horse John followed close behind They loped the horses across parks, trotted through the forests, walked slohat few inclines they met, and slid down the soft, wet, pine-ht miles an hour The horses held up well under that steady travel, and this without any rest at noon

Dale seemed to feel himself in an emotional trance Yet, despite this, the same old sensorial perceptions crowded thick and fast upon hiely sweet and vivid after the past dead months when neither sun nor wind nor cloud nor scent of pine nor anything in nature could stir him Hiswine of expectation, while his eyes and ears and nose had never been keener to register the facts of the forest-land He saw the black thing far ahead that resembled a burned sturay flash of deer and wolf and coyote, and the red of fox, and the srass; and he saw deep tracks of ga blades of bluebells where some soft-footed beast had just trod And he heard the h of the wind, the light dropping of pine-cones, the near and distant bark of squirrels, the deep gobble of a turkey close at hand and the challenge fros in the thickets, the le and the shrill cry of a hawk, and always the soft, dull, steady pads of the hoofs of the horses