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Pinkey stared at hi the buckskin before we can understand each other Anyhow, as I was sayin', you got a good proposition in this 160 if you can hold it"

"If I ahts I shall adhere to them at all hazards," declared Wallie, firmly "At first, however, I shall use s plainer?" Pinkey demanded, crossly "Why don't you talk United States? You sound like a Fifth Reader If you ue with hiittin' started"

"In that event, if he atteat'--and stop him"

"In that event," Pinkey relished the expression, "in that event I shall carry a shovel along to bury you"

Riding a horse fro two pack-horses ahead of him, Wallie left the Prouty House shortly after noon, followed by comments of a jocular nature from the bystanders

"How far is it?" inquired Wallie, as riding his English saddle and "posting"

"Twenty for me and forty for you, if you aim to ride that way," said Pinkey "Why don't you let out them stirrups and shove your feet in 'e, however, but observed that he hoped never to have another such fall as he had had at The Colonial

"A feller that's never been throwed has never rid," said Pinkey, sagely, and added: "You'll git used to it"

This Wallie considered a very reh he did not say so

Once they left the town they turned toward the mountains and conversation ceased shortly, for not only were they obliged to ride single file through the sagebrush and cacti but the trot of the livery horse soon left Wallie with no breath nor desire to continue it

The vast tract they were traversing belonged to Canby, so Pinkey informed him, and as mile after h illegal fencing, leasing, and driving small stockmen from the country by variouscircumference, and Wallie's hoh they had eaten before leaving Prouty, it was not an to wonder what they would have for supper They were notfast time, for his horse stumbled badly and the pack-horses, both old and stiff, travelled slowly, so at three o'clock the elusive mountains seemed as far away as when they had started