Sheran out to where old Gray lay, and then she went
kind of wild, and letout the queerest yelps.
She performed thistask for Grant and the
newcomer.
Im afraid we can never starta herd in this wild
canyon.
They came ahead,running, babbling, too excited to
be coherent.
Logan, that is absolutely the only way we can
attain ithere in Sycamore. I got most of the cougars cleaned out down at
Sycamore.
About daylight this morning I heard
them.
I reckon now I sure seethe cost to a
woman.
When the lands yours, wal, its
different.
Yousay it was way in the afternoon when you missed
the kids? Leaping to her feet, sheseized a pitchfork and, with one hand grasping
Abe, ran for the corral.
Last thing Id ever thought of, replied Huett,
sombrely.
However, it appeared that now they had
grownsufficiently large to try such an adventure. Whenshe had filled one bucket and
had begun the other, Abe, white-faced, camerunning into the shed. The gate
jarredshut except for the handle of the pitchfork.
Holbert said; and he was the handsome one of the
trio.
Youll own yourhomestead allotment an have right of
way over a big range. They scarcely took up four feet of the cabin. Logan, we must
approach the problem fromanother angle. Lucinda did not intrude her great fearupon
him. Despite it, she had great confidence in her husband. With avicious snarl and a
grind of teeth on the implement he fell backwards.
Look ahere, Paw, spoke up Abe, who always took his
mothers side.
They will grow up somehow all the more wonderful
for this lonelyplace.
Grant and Barbara played the longwinter away on the
floor of the cabin.
It allmeans prodigious labour, much poverty,
perhaps some hard setbacks, but inthe end success.
Lucinda observed that Abe watched with great
interest, and thisstimulated her own. She had only begun to recover from
thedevastating horror of the wolves attack. It was noonday, and the two youngsters
werenot in sight.
At the very outset, however, Holbert sent achill
shock to her heart. Yet her healthy, precocious children wouldhave been compensation
and joy for any toiling mother. Bet theyve been on the rampage withmy
cattle.
All too soon, then, Logans short fall seasonfor
hunting ended with deep snows up on the ridges.
To herhorror the cabin door stood wide open; the
bright fire blazed in thefireplace. Wagons go byoften now, replied Logan, and,
banging his pails, he stamped out. Then Logan was eager to make his fall trip
toFlagg. Wagons go byoften now, replied Logan, and, banging his pails, he stamped
out.