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"Guess I'll quirl ht I'd go into town in the mornin', I want to do me some buyin'"

Wallie nodded, and Pinkey added as he unhooked his heels: "You want to ride herd pretty clost on Aunt Lizzie She's bound and deterates The cattle are liable to hook her Canby throwed the-horns in there on purpose"

"I'rimly "Yes, I'll watch Aunt Lizzie But she isn't worse than Appel, as over there catching grasshoppers because he said they were fatter"

"Dudes is aggravatin'," Pinkey admitted "But," philosophically, "they're our ot to swaller 'eo up the path to the bunk-house he wondered vaguely what purchase he had to make that was so important as to induce him to make a special trip to Prouty But since Pinkey had not chosen to tell hi his own business, he diss to think about at that moment

It had hurt him that Helene Spenceley had not been over Obviously he had taken too ht that when she saas in earnest once more and in a fair way to s would be different between theined she would express her approval in some way, but she seemed to take it all as a matter of course She was the most difficult woman to impress that he ever had known, but, curiously, the less she was ier he was to impress her Yet her casualness only spurred hithened his deterreat deal in hi in the coress, and now he asked hirumpily why in the dickens he couldn't have fallen in love with Mattie Gaskett, who followed him like his shadow and had her own income, onderful prospects

He scuffed at the bark on the corral pole with his foot and thought sourly of the rot he had read about love begetting love He had not noticed it It hter, and his case was an instance of it Helene Spenceley laughed at him--he was sure of it--and fool that he was--imbecile--it did not seeirl for him and alould be--he was like that and it was a misfortune