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Boise Bill grinned when he saw Wallie and nodded Canby stepped out and greeted Wallie with so for you Have you bid on anything?"

"Not yet But I saw a fine-looking cow that I ht to be," Wallie replied with a touch of iood coill help out wonderfully I a With a cow and a hen or two----"

Canby and Wallie crossed the yard to where adressed in a halter preparatory to being led forward and put up at auction

"Will you be good enough to permit me to examine this animal?" Wallie asked of her caretaker

"Shore," he replied, heartily, though he looked puzzled

Wallie drew off his riding gloves and stepped up briskly in a professionalcow

He exclaio abruptly: "Why--she's old! I don't want her She hasn't a single tooth left in her upper jaw It's a fortunate thing I looked at her"

A suardian smiled broadly and openly and deliberately winked at Canby

Offended, Wallie dee?"

"Well--if a cow ever had a set of teeth in her upper jaw she'd be in a side-show They don't have 'e animal"

"That's true," Canby assented

"I declare! It seems very curious," Wallie exclaimed, astounded He added, with all his importance punctured: "I fear I have ood place to learn it," observed the cow's valet

Wallie bought the Jersey at private sale, and needless to say, paid its full value

"She'll be fresh in January," the man said to him

Wallie looked bewildered, so the other explained further: "She'll have a calf" He said it in such a confidential ht it was a secret and lowered his voice to answer: "I'otten the best of Canby and wished that Miss Spenceley and The Colonial folk knew he had otten a herd started

To Canby, who accoerly: "Where I wish your assistance is in the selection of my work-horses What would you advise? Have you a pair in ood horse Boise Bill was currying," he suggested