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"Keep it AMUSED! Aically cried the man "In Heaven's naive it your watch--anything! But don't allow it to cry--it ed his tactics and began to plead "Oh, Norine!" he ied out now, and, besides, I've got the only watch in caht, and it'll keep ht It's a nice baby, really It needs a woman---"

Norine parted the flaps of her tent and pointed inside, where Esteban Varona lay upon her cot His eyes were staring; his lips were"Mrs Ruiz and I will have our hands full with that poor chap For all we know, he ious disease"

Branch was utterly shameless, utterly selfish and uncompassionate "I'm sick, too--sicker than he is Have a heart! Re nice to eat---"

"Yes! The most ridiculous procedure I ever heard of What ever nant now

"I did it for you It seems to me that the least you can do in return---"

"The least, and the most, I can do is to try and save this poorI'd take the baby if I could, but I simply can't"

"It'll die on me," Branch protested

"Nonsense! It's the healthiest little thing I ever saw Wait until it has its supper You'll see" She disappeared into her tent and Branch reluctantly turned away

Next he bore the infant to Judson and O'Reilly in turn; but both gruffly refused to assume the least responsibility for it In theits welfare, however, they wereto discuss the theory of child-rearing with hi as he would listen, but their advice lare balefully and to curse theard it as a mark of friendship on their part when they collected an audience that evening to watch him milk the cow--a procedure, by the way, not devoid of excitee of coas even e of babies

Leslie had begun by this tiainst hiretted his ignorance of the Spanish language, however, for a thousand epithets and insults clamored for translation

Now there are cohich an amateur can milk, and there are other kinds This particular coas shy, apprehensive, peevish; Branch's unpractised fu herself a nomad of the savannas, she was accustomed to firm, masterful etically, to separate her from her milk she turned and hooked him