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A widely advertised stock sale was an event in the country for the twofold reason that it furnished the opportunity for neighbours with fifty and e personal news and experiences and also to purchase blooded animals for considerably less than they could have been imported

This was particularly true of the Canby sale, where the "culls," both in horses and cattle, were better than the best animals of the majority of the small stockely attended by the natives, who drank Canby's coffee and ate his doughnuts while calling him names which are commonly deleted by the censor

It was the custom also for such persons as had a few head of horses or cattle to dispose of, but not enough for a sale of their own, to bring them to be auctioned off with Canby's So it had come to pass that the stock sale at Canby's ranch was second only in importance to the county fair to which all the countryside looked forward

Therefore Wallie, whose notion of a stock sale was of the vaguest, wasin the direction his visitor had indicated and spending hours hunting for gates in wire fences, had come upon an assembly of a size he would not have believed possible in that sparsely populated district

Unless they denned in the rocks, the question as to where they lived ht have puzzled a person more familiar with this Western phenoht have been duplicates of Henry's first ether with the larger cars of the ies were in evidence, relics of the Victorian period, shipped out from Iowa and Nebraska--serviceable vehicles that had done duty when their owners were "keeping coons were plentiful, with straw and quilts in the bottom to serve as shock-absorbers, while saddle horses were tied to every hitching post and cottonwood

When Wallie arrived in his riding boots and breeches he i Durha auctioned The Durham, however, returned the stare of the croith blasé eyes which said that he had seen all of life he wanted to and did not care what further happened, while Wallie felt distinctly uncoht find Canby

As he stood speculating as to whether the folds of skin around the Durhae--a year for a fold, after the roup that was interested in the efforts of one of its members to pry a horse's mouth open