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"We have divided skirts and everything! Just wait till you see us!" cried Mrs Budlong "And you'll take our pictures, won't you, Mr Penrose?"
"I don'ta couple of films," he consented
Between the pancakes and the prospective riding lesson the athtly strained relations were again norer as children as they opened their trunks for their costumes, and even Aunt Lizzie Philbrick, who had once ridden a burro in Old Mexico, declared her intention of trying it
While the "dudes" dressed, Pinkey and Wallie went down to the corral to saddle for them
"We better let her ride the pinto," said Pinkey, casually
"'Her?'" Wallie looked at his partner fixedly "Which 'her'?"
"That lady that's so thin she could hide behind a match and have room left to peek around the corner She seeaited," Pinkey explained, elaborately
"All right," Wallie nodded, "and we'll put Aunt Lizzie on the white one and give Mrs Budlong----"
"Kindly assign me a spirited mount," interrupted Mr Stott, who, as to costuroom and a fox-hunter
Wallie looked dubious
"Oh, I understand horses," declared Mr Stott, "I used to ride like an Indian"
"The buckskin?" Wallie asked doubtfully of Pinkey
Pinkey hesitated
"You need not be afraid that he will injure me I can handle him"
Wallie, who never had heard of Mr Stott's horsemanship, consented reluctantly
"I prefer to saddle and bridle myself, also," said Mr Stott, when the buckskin was pointed out to his returned to him and Pinkey rolled his eyes eloquently when they saw "theto bridle with the chin-strap and noted that he had saddled without a blanket
Mr Stott laughed inconsequently when the mistake was pointed out to hihtto stand on I anificant glances as the man "who used to ride like an Indian" cli into an upper berth in a Pullrace of a clothespin when the rest of the party ca lesson
Neither Pinkey nor Wallie was easily startled, but when they saw their guests the le Disht of conducting the party through Prouty and the Yellowstone Wallie had his share of e, but when they first h for the ordeal