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In time, very likely, he would be a hermit, or a "sour-ball" like Canby; he would sit at dances looking like a bull-elk that's been whipped out of the herd, and the girls would giggle at him

Wallie's ed up the path to bed, hoping he would awaken in a more cheerful humour--which he did--because he drea up the road in a machine of a splendour "to put Canby's eye out"

The next athered at the breakfast table Miss Eyester looked downcast because he had failed to tell her of his intention, while Mrs Stott declared that it was very inconsiderate for hi it, since he had proo on with her dresser-scarf until she had so passed without incident, except that Mr Budlong was astonished when Wallie told hi Mr Canby's herd of cattle ood fortune he had not killed any of the questions and lengthening and shortening stirrups for ladies the length of whose legs see such alterations necessary

Miss Gaskett "heeled" Wallie with flattering faithfulness and incidentally imparted the information that a friend from Zanesville, Ohio, Miss Mercy Lane was to join their party in Prouty when the date was definitely set for their tour of the Yellowstone

"She's a dear, sweet girl who-school, and," archly, "you must tell me that you will not fall in love with her"

Wallie, who now thought of even "dear, sweet girls" in terms of dollars and cents, felt that he could safely proled for dinner, and Wallie looked forward to the ride afterward, although it had its attendant irritations--chief of which was the propensity of J Harry Stott to gallop ahead and then gallop back to see if the party was co: rare sport for Mr Stott, but less so for the buckskin As soon as that sterling young fellow had discovered that he could ride at a gallop without falling off he lost no opportunity to do so, and his horse was already showing the result of it

Boosting Aunt Lizzie Philbrick on and off her horse to enable her to pick flowers and exa Mrs Budlong's hairpins when her hair ca, too, never failed to lag behind and become separated from the rest of the party, so that he had to be hunted He persisted in riding in moccasins and said that his insteps "ached him" so that he could not keep up