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"Look!Jane, thelers, an' that'll pull the whole herd"

Jane was not quick enough to catch the details called out by Lassiter, but she saw the line of cattle lengthening Then, like a streae swarm, the steers stretched out fro rapidity, the whole herd got intohoofs ca clouds of dust began to rise above the sage

"It's a stampede, an' a hu with the valley! It leads into the canyon! There's a straight juood s round aloes east That sta, white, bobbing line of steers streaked swiftly through the sage, and a funnel-shaped dust-cloud arose at a low angle A dull ru filled Jane's ears

"I'lance swept up the slope to the west "There's soe Mebbe that's Judkins an' his boys It ain't likely he'll get here in tih ridge"

He ran to his horse and, throwing off saddle-bags and tightening the cinches, he leaped astride and galloped straight down across the valley

Jane went for Black Star and, leading hie, she mounted and faced the valley with excite stampeded cattle, and kneas a feat acco riders

The white herd was now strung out in a line twoThe dull rumble of thousands of hoofs deepened into continuous low thunder, and as the steers swept swiftly closer the thunder became a heavy roll Lassiter crossed in a few round and there waited the co of the herd Presently, as the head of the white line reached a point opposite to where Jane stood, Lassiter spurred his black into a run Jane saw him take a position on the off side of the leaders of the stampede, and there he rode It was like a race They swept on down the valley, and when the end of the white line neared Lassiter's first stand the head had begun to swing round to the west It swung slowly and stubbornly, yet surely, and gradually assu white To Jane's a till they headed back toward her and up the valley Out to the right of these wild plunging steers ran Lassiter's black, and Jane's keen eye appreciated the fleet stride and sure-footedness of the blind horse Then it seee half-moon with the points of head and tail almost opposite, and a mile apart But Lassiter relentlessly crowded the leaders, sheering the theed on , ever-changing curve of steers rolled toward Jane and when below her, scarce half a an to narrow and close into a circle Lassiter had ridden parallel with her position, turned toward her, then aside, and noas riding directly away fro line inward