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vas in my lite, but I have a Iit- friend' here who cau rope, down id 'ride that 'critter from here to the front in five minutes by the if you've got 4 twenty-five Bill in Your pocket, or its equiv: in dust-you can' observe the ex- I a 1 ain't what you might call fn | and that steer is full of triple SG'wan! says Ag. then We're twenty-five ahead' suppose we lose? #well-- It won't be such an awful yo "Now, you look here, Agamembod' _ G: Jones,' says I, 'I aint going fo Ce for putting up & summer breezy that feller's good dough. That's when Aggy started to argue just as well 'moo' andl chase into the corral, because he'd sure. Why, that man could cabin and make robes bloom #10 the middle of the floor. While 'was singing his little song you pee 'em and smell 'em. He could a snowbank off a high divide in middle of February. Never see with such a medicine tongue, and In a big man it was all the stran- "Now, he winds up, 'as for cheat- y t feller, yoi ought to know me © better, Bed. Why, ll give bim my "So, anyhow, I dome it Up the "gtreet we went, steer bawling and buck jumping, my hair a-fiyleg and me' "as busy as the little bee you read about . keeping that steer underneath me + "stead of om top of me, where he'd uth be, and after us the whole whoopin', yellin', crackint oft "phe we bad $25 and was as good 'anybidy. But it dido't last long. phe' £8 horns come out after day Tio hoptoads aftef d raln. Frvontd 'puzzle the government at Washington %o know where they hang out in the seantime. There was one lad had a him with about as much ex- as a hotel punkin ple. He Arto Same, anc. talked | t along in a voice that had re bends tn it than a billiard cue. 's where you get your three 'for one any child may do it no chance "Jose make your bets while the ar row of fortune swings all gents ac- commodated in amounts from two bits double eagles and bets paid on the ! says be, " Red,' says Aggy, 'T can double our Let me have the You'd I experienced the peculiar feel- altogether at a loss for you are a One thing, boy, you can mark "451 Hight, says Ag. "This éporting fo is the very devil 1 like outdoors \ well as the next man, when I get the morrow morning away we of "J tell you 1 won't. I don't like to have anybody walk on my fc e" 0 write my WuUi peice 1 touched bot. tom If we'd gone over. 1 don't know as 1 turned pale, but my bair ain't been of the same TOY complexion since. -~ "Well" says Aggy lo a surprised tone of voice when we got all four wheels on the ground ngain. 'Here we are? says he. 'Who'd have suspected it? 1 thought he was going to take the short cut down to the creek.' "The driver turned round with one corner of his lip b'isted--a dead ringes of a mean man. Says he to AZg¥, 'Yer a funny bloke, ain't yer? "Why, says Ag. 'that's for you to say--wouldn't look well coming from me--but if you press me I'll admit I | give birth to a little gem now and then." «Our bold buck puts on a grea | swagger. 'Well, yer needn't be funny in this wagon,' says he. 'The pair of yer spongin' a ride! Yer needn't be gay. Yer hear me, don't cher? " "Why, 1 hear you as plain as though you set right next me,' says Ag. 'Now, you listen and see if I'm audible at the same range. You're a blasted chump? he roars in a tone of volce that would have carried forty mile. 'Did you heat, that, Red? he asks ver innocent. I was so hot at the driver's sass--the cussed low downness of doing a fellet a favor and then heaving it at him-- that you could have lita match on me anywheres, but to save me 1 couldn't help laughing--Ag had the comicalest way! "At that the driver begins to larrup the horses. I ain't the kind to feel faint when a cayuse gets what's com- ing to him for raising the devil, but to see that Jad whale his team becauso there wasn't nothing else he dared hit got me on my hind legs. I nestled one band in his hair and twisted his ugly mug back. "Quit that? says L A «Yon let me be--I ain't hurting you,' he hollers. "eThat ain't to say I won't be hurt- ing you soon,' says L 'You put the bud on them horses again, and I'll boot the spine of your back up through the top of your head till it stands out like a flagstaff. Just one more touch and you get it!' says L "He didn't open his mouth again tin we come to the river. Then he pulled up. 'This is about as far as I care to carry you two gents for mothin',' he says. 'Of course you're two to ove, and I can't do pothing if you see fit te bull the thing through. But I'll say this, if either one or-both of you roost- ers has got the least smell of a gentle- man about him he won't have to be told his company ain't wanted twice' "Now, mind you, Ag and me didn't Mave the first cussed thing--not grub nor blankets nor gun nor pothing, and this the feller well knew. "Red, says Aggy, 'what do you say to pulling this thing apart And seeing what makes it act so? "No, -says I, 'don't touch it--if might be catching. Now, you whelp" says 1 to the driver, 'yom tell us if there's a place where we can get any- Vi We'd ex- we hit the 5 Edmonton, Alberts, Can. -- 'I think it is no more than right for ine to thank | you for what your kind advice and Lydis E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound have done for me. 'When I wrote to you some time ago I | was a very sick woman suffering from female troubies. I had organic inflam- mation and could not stand or walk any distance. At last 1 was confined to my bed, and the doctor said 1 would have to go through an operation, but this I refused todo. A friend advised LydisE. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and now, after using three bottles of it, I feel like 8 new woman. I most heartily recommend your medicitie to all women whosuffer with female troubles. 1have also taken Lydia E. Pinkham's IF Beatrice, Neb.--*'Just after my mate | riage my left side bégan to pain me and the pain got so severe at times that I suffered terribly with it. I visited three doctors and each one wanted to operate on me but I would not consent to an op- eration. 1 heard of the good Lydia E, Pinkham's Vegetable Compound 'was doing for others and I used several bot- tles of it with the result that I haven't been bothered with my side since then. I am in good health and] have two little girls."'--Mrs.R. B.CHILD, Beatrice, Neb. -------------------------------------------------------- feet bérore "1 conte fo Ted rock, and there was some heavy black chunks, "Aggy, says I, 'what's thece things? throwing qoe over to him. He caught it and stared at it. " 'Where did you get that? says be in almost a whisper. " "Why, out of the hole, of course! says 1, laughing. 'Come take a look! "Aggy wasn't the kind of a man to 20 off the handle over trifles, but when he looked into that hole he turned per fectly green. His koees give out from under him, and he sat on the ground like a man in a trance, wiping the gweat off his face with a motion like a machine. «What the devil ails you? says L astonished. 1 thought maybe I'd done something 1 hadn't ought to de through ignorance of the rules and regulations of mining. "Red, says he, dead solemn, 'Tve mined for twenty year and from old Mexico to Alaska, but 1 never saw anything that was ace high to thai before. Gold laying loose in chunks on top of the bed rock is too mucl for me. I wish Hy could see this.' "Gold! says 1. 'What you talking about? What have those black hunks 0 to do with gold? "The only answer he made was te lay the obe I had thrown to him "on top of a rock and hit her a crack with a pick. Then he handed it to me | | Sure enough! There under the black |" war the yeller. Of course ir ra known more about the business 1 could h pave told it by the weight, but Pa {and oft never seen a piece of gold fresh the farin before in my life. 1 hadn't the slightest idea what it looked like, and T learned afterward it all looks different. Some of it shines up yeller in the start, some of it's red, and some Is lke ours, coated black with irom crust. "So 1 looked at Ag, and Ag looked at me, neither one of us believing anything at all for awhile. 1 simply couldn't get hold of the thing--I ain't yet, for that matter. I expect to wake up and find it a pipe dream, and fn some ways I wouldn't mind if it was 1 never was 80 completely two men as I was on that occasion. One of 'em was hopping around and hollering with Ag, yelling 'Hooray! and the other didn't take much interest in the proceedings at all. And it wasn't until 1 thought, 'Now 1 can pay that cuss. ed coyote of a stage driver owe him? that I got any good out it. That brought it home to me. I spoke to Ag about paying the driver, he says, 'That so' Then he takes quick look around. 'We can pay fn fall, too, 01d. hotse! he hollers, and there was a mest joyful smile oo bis face. Red,' says he, 'don't you know. this is the only ford om the river for--1 don't know how many mil \R| ) . 1R OF I ; ) Jompanie