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It see which ht be of future use to hi a runaway horse to his grand, I tell you We raised her a pet on the ranch, so I ought to knohat I'ed to separate the horse's jaws laughed uproariously: "If she ever sees sixteen again----"

"She ain't over eight, and I'll take my oath on it," interrupted the owner, with a fine show of indignation

"If I could believe you, I'd buy her"

A piping voice froroup interjected itself into the conversation It came from under the limp brim of a hat that dropped to the speaker's shoulders

"Why, I knowed that harse when I first come to the country She was runnin' with her e at Tensleep owned her Sole's runnin' harse, 'Left Hand,' was her father, and others said she was jest a ketch colt, but I dunno Her mother was a sorrel with a star in her forehead and the Two-pole-punkin' brand on her left shoulder If I ain't mistaken, she had one white hind stockin' and they was a wire cut above her hock that was kind of a ble bone and they had to kill her, but Bear George sold the colt, this mare here, to a feller at Kaysee over on Powder River and he won quite considerable o that I last seen her, but I knowed her the ot the tizic, but you never would know it unless you run her One of her stifle j'ints----"

The mare's owner interrupted at this juncture: "You jest turn your o off and leave it?"

"I happened to know a little soan "Tex," whose other naht you'd butt in and queer the sale of it I suppose you'd suffer somethin' horrible if there was a horse-deal on and you had to keep your le protested feebly that he had no such idea when he gave the horse's history, and Wallie was lih one of the doorways of a stable so he hurried across the yard and found hi a work-horse which quite evidently was to be auctioned