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"Did you ever see anything prettier?" Wallie deht," Pinkey ," Wallie said, sharply

"I atchin' them cattle"

"I don't see any"

Pinkey pointed, but Wallie could see nothing

"If they got cows on Mars, I'll bet I could read the bran's," Pinkey boasted "Can't you see them specks movin' off yonder?"

Wallie admitted he could not

"It's cattle, and they act like somebody's drivin' 'em," Pinkey declared, positively "Looks like it's too early to be ave the wheat his attention

"It looks fine, Wallie," he said with sincerity

Wallie could not resist crowing: "You didn't think I'd last, did you? Miss Spenceley didn't, either She'll be disappointed very likely when she hears I've succeeded"

"Don't cackle till you've laid your aig, Gentle Annie When you've thrashed and sold your grain and got your it drunk if I have to rob a drug-store"

"You're always putting a da," Wallie reh a year of it," Pinkey replied, candidly, "then al else would look like a snap to you"

It was plain that in spite of his prospects Pinkey was not sanguine, but in this moment of his exultation failure seemed impossible to Wallie

In various small ways Canby had tried to break him and had not succeeded Boise Bill had prophesied that he would not "winter"--yet here he ith every reason to believe that he would also "summer" Wallie felt rather invincible as he reflected upon it, and the aurora borealis did not exceed in colour the outlook his fancy painted that evening

"It's eight-thirty," Pinkey hinted "When I set up till all hours I over-sleep in the "

Wallie caain per the folk of The Colonial who knew nothing of such rapturous moments in that stale, uneventful world which was so re to seem like a dream to him

They had been asleep for an hour, ed Wallie violently

"What's that huffin', do you reckon?"

Wallie aith a start and listened

"Huffing" was the right word Lying next to the logs, so so heavily in Wallie's ear that it sounded like a bellows He peered through a crack and saw so at a sack he had used for chinking It was not a horse and was too large for his Jersey It flashed through hissilvertip from the mountain