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"It wouldn't trouble my conscience none if I hazed a bunch of his horses over the line, but horses are so cheap now that it wouldn't pay to take the chance"

"There's the Prouty Bank," Wallie suggested, ironically

"Theit at" Pinkey spoke in an authoritative tone

"Why don't you et us a stake?"

"A!" Resents off of clothes lines first" He added: "I don't like them jokes"

"I didn't know you were touchy, Pink"

"Everybody's touchy," Pinkey replied, sagely, "if you hit 'eht spot But, do you know, this dude ranch sticks in ht as well let it drop We haven't theour breath We'll lose the jobs we've got if we don't get about our business Let's leave the cattle in the corral and scout a little through the hills--it'll save us another trip I don't want to coreed, and they rode gloo for a ford A few hot days had taken off the heavy snows in theswift and deep

"That's treach'rous water," Pinkey observed "They's boulders in there as big as a house where it looks all smooth on top I know a place about a mile or so where I think it'll be safe"

They had ridden nearly that distance when, simultaneously, they pulled their horses up

"Look at that crazy fool!" Pinkey ejaculated, aghast

"It's--Canby!" Wallie exclaimed