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Wallie's face was sober as he confided: "If anything rong I'd be done for I'm so near broke that I countuessed it," said Pinkey, calmly, "from the rabbit fur I see layin' around the dooryard"

"Nearly everything has cost double what I thought it would, but if I get a good crop and the price of wheat holds up I'll co"

"If nothin' happens," Pinkey supplemented

"I want to show you one of those bulletins"

"I've seen plenty of 'eit 'em started Them, and pamphlets tellin' us ent to war, has killed off h blizzards, or be fined fer not deliverin' 'eover'ht out a pamphlet with an illustration of twelve horses hitched to a co in a wheat-field of boundless acreage

"There," he said, proudly, "you see arded it, unexcited

"That's a real nice picture," he said, finally, "but I thought you aio in for cattle?"

"I did But I've soured on thereed heartily: "I'd ruther 'swamp' fer a livin' than do loork like ed, I get out this picture and look at it and telltwelve horses on a thresher A chap thinks and does curious things when he has nobody but himself for coly "When I'm off alone huntin' stock, I ride fer hours wonderin' if it's so that you kin make booze out of a raisin"

"Let's walk out and look at the wheat," Wallie suggested

Pinkey co was an industry in which he took no interest

Wallie's pride in his wheat was inordinate He never could get over a feeling of astonishrain had co--that it was his--and he would reap the benefit Nature was more wonderful than he had realized and he never before had appreciated her He always forgot the heart-breaking and back-breaking labour when he stood as now, surveying with glowing face the even green carpet stretching out before hione through since he arrived in Wyoht of the people at The Colonial, rocking placidly on the veranda