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Show SOUTH CACHE COURIER HYKUM, UTAH SYNOPSIS. O almost one hundred yards distant. Of course It would have been only childs play to an experienced hunter; hut lo a tenderfoot it was u difficult mark Indeed. Twice out of four shots Dan hit the tree trunk, and one of his two hits was practically a bulls-eye- . Ills two misses were the result of the same mistake lie had made before attempting to hold Ills aim too long. j Warned by his physician that he has not more than six months to live, Dan Falling sits despondently on a park bench, wondering where he should spend those six months Memories of his grandfather ard a deep love for all things of the tv lid help him in reaching a decision. in a large southern Oregon city he meets people who had known and loved his grandfather, a famous frontiersman. lie makes his home with Silas Lennox, a typical westerner. The only other members of the household are Lennoxs son, Bill," and daughter, Snowbird. Their abode Is In the Umpqua divide, and there Falling ph ns to live out the short span of life which he has been told is his. From the first Fallings health shows a marked Improvement, and In the companionship of Lennox and his son and daughter he fits Into the woods life as If he had been born to it. By quick thinking and a remarkable display of nerve" he saves Lennoxs life and his own when they are attacked by a mad coyote. Lennox dec lares lie Is a reincarnation of his grandfather, Dan Failing, 1, whose fame as a woodsman Is a household word. Dan and tO CHAPTER III 5 It wns Grnycoat the coyote, halfThey trudged on, and Lennox grew thoughtful. He was recalling the pic- blind with his madness, and desture that he had 6een when he had perate In his agony. whirled to' look at Dan, Immediately There was no more deadly thing In after the deer had leaped from Its all the hills than he. Even the bite bed. It puzzled him a little. He had of a rattlesnake would have been welturned to find the younger man In a comed beside his. He stood a long perfect posture to shoot, his feet Instant, and all his Instincts and replaced In exactly the position that flexes that would have ordinarily years of experience had taught Len- made him flee In abject terror vere nox was correct ; and withal, absolutethwarted and twisted by the fever of ly motionless. What many hunters hls madness. He stared a moment at take years to learn, Dan had seemed the two figures, and his red eyes could to know by Instinct. Could It be, after not Interpret them. They were simply all, that this slender weakling, even foes, for it was true that when this now bowed down with a terrible racking agony was upon him, even malady, had inherited the true fron- lifeless trees seemed foes sometimes. He seemed eerie and unreal as he tiersmans' Instincts of his ancestors? The result of this thought was at gazed at them out of his burning eyes; least to hover In the near vicinity of and the white foam gathered at hli a certain conclusion. That conclusion fangs. And then, wholly without wns that at least a few of the char- warning, he charged down at them. He came with unbelievable speed. acteristics of his grandfather had been passed down to Dan. It meant The elder Lennox cried once in warnthat possibly, if time remained, he ing and cursed himself for venturwould not turn out such a wenkllng, ing forth on the ridge without a gun. after all. Of course his courage, his ne was fully twenty feet distant from nerve, had yet to be tested; but the Dan; yet he saw in an Instant hls fact remained that long generations only course. This was no time to of frontiersmen ancestors had left this trust their lives to the marksmanship influence upon him. The wild was of an amateur. He sprang toward calling to him, wakening Instincts Dan, intending to wrench the weapon long smothered In cities, but sure and from his hand. But he didnt achieve his purpose. true as ever. It was the beginning of regeneration. Voices of the long At the first step his foot caught in a past were speaking to him, and the projecting root, and he was shot to Failings once more had begun to run his face on the trail. But a long fife true to form. Inherited tendencies In the wilderness had developed Lenwere in a moment changing this weak, noxs reflexes to an abnormal degree; diseased youth into a frontiersman, many crises had taught him muscle and wilderness inhabitant such as his and nerve control; and only for a fraction of an Instant, a period of ancestors had been before him. They were slipping along over the time that few instruments are fine pine needles, their eyes Intent on the enough to measure, did he lie supinely trail ahead. And then Lennox saw a upon the ground. He rolled on, into curious thing, ne beheld Dan sud- a position of defense. But he knew denly stop In the trail and turn his now he could not reach the younger eyes toward a heavy thicket that lay man before the mad coyote would be perhaps one hundred yards to their upon them. The matter was out of right. For on Instant he looked al- his hands. Everything depended on most like a wild creature himself, nis the aim and of the head was lowered, as If he were listening. His muscles were set and ready. Lennox had prided himself that he Dan Failing true markshad retained all the powers of his five manship proves that he is not senses, and that few men in the mounthe weakling he i supposed to tains had keener ears than he. Yet in be on several occasions it was truth that at first he only knew the next installment of ,Tha the silence, and the stir and pulse of Voice of the Pack. his own blood. He assumed then that Dan was watching something that (TO BE CONTINUED.) from his position, twenty feet behind, he could not see. He tried to probe Mental Travel for Educands. the thickets with his eyes. , We must never forget that educaThen Dan whispered, Ever so soft a sound, but yet distinct in the si- tion is a form of mental travel. Its as that of lence. Theres something living in aim might be described intellien voyage, the youth sending that thicket. of Hence the inadequacy gently. Then Lenqexeard it, too. As they as the local the place,' staying stood still, the sound became ever eduof the than rather point, starting clearer and more pronounced. Some view of breadth know the We cation. living creature was advancing toward of the travthem; and twigs were cracking be- ordinarily characteristic neath its feet. The sounds were rath- eled man. We should seek in our er subdued, and yet, as the animal ap- schools and colleges to afford the eduas yet, and possibly proached, both of them Instinctively cands (who are knew that they were extremely loud likely long to remain, untraveled) opfor the usual footsteps of any of the portunities of trained soundness of judgment and' width of perspective, in wild creatures. its measure of possibilities, like the What Is It? Dan asked quietly. Lennox wns so intrigued by the travelers. The fewer the opportunisounds that he wns not even observ- ties of the pupils for personal physical ant of the peculiar, subdued quality observations of things at a distance In Dans voice. Otherwise, he would (whether in time or space), the more have wondered at it. Im free to earnestly should the school endeavor, to fill up gaps of confess I dont know, he said. Its by sound methods, round to out the limand booming right toward us, like most knowledge, animals dont care to do. Of course ited scope of the pupils knowledge. it may be a human being. You must Review. waich out for that. Familiar Incident. They waited. The sound ended. I understand the platform on which They stood straining for a long moa candidate wns speaking broke down ment without speech. Nothing unusual, comThat was the dumdest thing! under him. I have Of course it might mented Senator Sorghum. Lennox went on. have been a bear you never know very seldom known a candidate who what theyre going to do. It might did not fall off his platform at one have got sight of ns and turned off. time or another." But 1 cant believe that It was just a Sailor Superstitions. deer- -r A seamans superstition is that n But then his words chopped squarely off In his throat. The plodding ad- penknife stuck into the mast of a vance commenced again. And the sailing vessel Is supposed to bring next instant a gray form revealed it- wind. For the same reason a sailor will whistle through hls teeth. self at the edge of the thicket. Continued. i Dan saw tlie door close behind him, ,nnd he had an instant's glimpse of the jlong sweep of moonlit ridge that 'stretched beneath the window. Then, tall at once, seemingly without warning, it simply blinked out. Not until !the next morning did he really know .why. Insomnia was an old acquaint- ance of Dans, and he had expected to have some trouble in getting to sleep. His only real trouble was waking up again when Lennox called him to breakfast. lie couldnt believe that the light at his window shade was really that of morning. "Good Heavens! his host exploded. You sleep the sleep of the just. Dan was about to tell him that on the contrary he was a very nervous sleeper, but he thought better of it Something had surelf happened to Ills The next instant he even , insomnia. forgot to wonder about it In the realization that his tired body had been He had no wonderfully refreshed. dread now of the long tramp up the ridge that his host had planned. But first came target practice. In Dans baggage he had a certain very plain but serviceable sporting rifle of about thirty-fortcaliber a gun that the information department of the store In Gitche-apoli- s large sporting-good- s had recommended for his pur- pose. Except for the few moments In the store. Dan had never held a rifle in his hands. The first shot he hit the trunk of a pine at thirty paces. But I couldnt very well have missed It! he replied to Lennoxs You see, I aimed at the midcheer. dle but I just grazed the edge. The second shot was not so good, And it missing the tree altogether. was a singular thing that he aimed longer and tried harder on this shot than on the first. The third time he tried still harder, and made by far the worst shot of all. Whats the matter? he demanded. Tm getting worse all the time. Lennox didnt know for sure. But It might be lie made a long guess. but Im inhe luck," said, beginners clined to think youre trying too hard. Take it easier depend more on your Instincts." DanS reply was to lift the rlfl lightly to his shoulder, glance quickl along the trigger and fire. The bullet struck within one Inch of the center of the pine. For a long second Lennox gazed at lilm in astonishment. he cried at last. My stars, boy! Was I mistaken In thinking you were a born tenderfoot after all? Can It be that a little of your old grnndfa ' .thers skill has been passed down to yon? But you cant do it again. But Dan did do it again. If any thing, the btillet was a little nearer ,the center. And then he aimed at a more distant tree. But the hammer snapped down in effectively on the breech. He turned with a look of question. Your gun only holds five shots," Lennox explained. Reloading, Dan tried a more difficult target a trunk Lennox started, together up the long slope of the ridge. Dan alone armed; Lennox wrent with hint solely os a guide. The deer season had Just opened, and It might be that Dan would want to procure one of these creatures. But Im not sure I want to hunt You speak of deer," Dan told him. them as being so beautiful They are beautiful and your grandfather would never hunt them, either, except for meat. But maybe youll change your mind when you see a buck. Besides, wTe might run into a lynx or a panther. But not very likely, without dogs. They trudged up, over the carpet of pine needle They fought their way through a thicket of buckbrush. Once they saw the gray squirrels In the tree tops. And before Lennox had as much as supposed they were near the haunts of big game, a yearling doe sprang up from its bed in the thickets. For an Instant she stood motionless, presenting a perfect target. It was evident that she had heard the sound of the approaching hunters, but had not as yet located or identified them with her eyes. Lennox whirled to find Dan standing very still, peering along the barrel of his rifle. 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STREET self-contr- ol d Theres Something Living fl&ftliT (UMWa That DAY IN BALBOAS LIFE week In September Balboa week In Great Spanish Explorer First Sighted the Pacific Ocean on September 25, 1513. Thicket. of the fastest gaits In the whole nnimal world. In the wink of an eye she was out of sight. Why didnt you shoot?" Lennox demanded. Shoot? It was a doe, wasnt It? Good Lord, of course it was a doe But there are no game laws that go back this far. Besides you aimed at Is one 1 it. I aimed Just to see If I could .catch It through my sights. And I could. My glasses sort of made It blur but I think perhaps that I could have shot It. But Im not going to kill does. There must be some reason for the game laws, or they wouldnt exist. Youre a funny one. Come three thousand miles to hunt and then pass up the first deer you see. You could almost have been your grandfather, to have done that He thought killing deer needlessly was almost as bad as killing a man. 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