Show STUDENT LIFE “Xo and I’m almost starved” l’ert was already raking coals to put the fry pan on He continued “I live over the Divide and have been over to the “Spur” and I aint had much to eat since I left home on account of circumstances” Jack started to take his horse “Wait till I tell you something I went down yesterday and shot Steve all to pieces" Old Joey asked “why?” “I can’t tell you fellows It ’aint my row or I would” “That’s all right Put his horse with the other Jack and we’ll fix him some supper” lie told us while he ate that the cow bovs from the ranch were after him They had not been at the ranch when he was and they were slow getting started but he had seen them through the field glasses riding out across the fiat after he was on top of the Divide twenty miles on his way home Thev had gone up a canyon south from the one he had taken so they were at least several hours behind him but they had had a pack horse so he knew the chase was still in ress He would start when the moon came up and could be in the bad lands bv daylight and a hunt for him there would be hopeless Once he was back among his own people the Spur crowd would wisely stay away “Old Joev” always sleeps with me on our hunting trips and that night as the moon arose he crawled out woke lip our visitor and was 229 gone so long that I fell asleep again At daylight next morning the stranger’s horse was there badly crippled but he was gone So was Joe’s mare Two weeks later I rode down to the old man’s ranch He handed me a paper and said “Old Bess came home last night and I combed that out of her tail Read it to me” In a feminine hand was written “I am much oblged to you" Dauber Ib Arizona Jerry Caldwell lad of Phoenix Arizona had become tired of the life there and had gone to the country to seek employment He had little difficulty in getting a job es hav hand on a large ranch a city owned by the Tinsdell Stock Company in western Arizona Tenderfoot kid and manv like expressions were the term of address used by the ranchers and cowboys when speaking to him but he cared little for their slurs and reproaches All rummer long he worked hard and did his best to suit his employers the end of the season when most of the other men were being laid off he was retained at the ranch to help the foreman oversee the fall work The next year was a happy one for Jerry He was put in as foreman of a large part of the ranch and his wages were greatly in- - |