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Unable to refrain any longer, Wallie called to ask how much farther

"Twelve ry I don't knohere I''lar stummick-robbers"

By four o'clock every ue was nothing as coer He tried to adnificent prospects, of Helene Spenceley, but his thoughts always came back quickly to the subject of food and a wonder as to how soon he could get it

In his regular, well-fed life he never had ier His destination represented only soet there

"What e have for supper, Pinkey?" he shouted, finally

Pinkey replied prora-vy and cowpuncher perta-toes; and maybe I'll build some biscuit, if we kin wait fer 'em"

"Let's not have biscuit--let's have crackers"

Ha with histhe esture: "There's your future ho'lar paradise"

As Mr Macpherson stared at the Elysiu to discover the resemblance, surprise kept him silent

So far as he could see, it in nowise differed from the arid plain across which they had ridden It was a pebbly tract, covered with sagebrush and cacti, which dropped abruptly to a creek-bed that had no water in it Filled with sudden ood for?"

"Look at the view!" said Pinkey, ireat place for dry-farh to s hie so"

"You see," Pinkey explained, enthusiastically, "bein' clost to theand all the it it"

"I see" Wallie nodded comprehensively "Why didn't you take it up yourself, Pinkey?"

"Oh, I got to ht in the answer and Wallie pondered it as he got stiffly out of the saddle

"Can I be of any assistance?" he asked, politely

"You can git the squaw-axe and hack out a place fer a bed-ground and you can hunt up soo to the crick and locate so a place to picket these horses"

Because it would hasten supper, it seemed to Wallie that wood and water were ofa place to sleep, so he collected a sebrush, then took an alu the bank of Skull Creek looking for a pool which contained enough water to fill the kettle He finally saw one, and planting his heels in a dirt slide, shot like a toboggan so his kettle he walked back over the boulders looking for a et up than the one he had descended