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If, perchance, this did not happen, Canby had a syste settlers It was quite as efficacious as open warfare, though it took longer and was open to the objection that sohty acres or so which went to weeds when they abandoned it

Canby had no personal feeling against Wallie and, afterhim, decided he would use thehi him off by threats and violence he would merely starve him out, and Wallie's bank balance indicated that Canby was in a fair way to accos hadof Canby's purpose, and the saedly after his cow and horse until he had worn out their perversity alwaysto stick until he had his crop in and harvested if he laid down, a skeleton, and died beside one of his own haystacks

Mostly, however, he was so busy with his cooking, feeding his livestock, getting wood and water, to say nothing of piling rocks and grubbing sagebrush that he had no tis he had done hile that his locoed horses would groorse instead of better and eventually would have to be shot, and that person had i information also that not only could he expect no milk from his cow until her calf arrived in January but Jerseys were a breed not coht that his aunt would surely relent to the extent of writing hihtbox nailed to a post by the roadside, he had found that it had contained only a circular urging him to raise ht have sent hi He had seen her only twice since the sale, and each time she had whizzed past hiiven hi which he had tried to analyze but had been unable to find a satisfactory naether, Wallie felt very lonely and forlorn and forgotten this Christ to the wind twanging the stove-pipe wire and conte his present and future

He had discovered that by craning his neck slightly when in a certain position he could look through a crack and see the notch in theto Pinkey He was proed his observation, so he decided that he would get up, feed his animals and, after breakfast, wash his shirt and a feels by way of recreation