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Show JUST AN INDIAN CUR But a Little Dog Who Was an Altogether Alto-gether Delightful Companion. He turned one v-l?an half-somersault from nowhere and landed plunk n his back at mv feet. I said. "Flapjack '" That's how he got his name. He was only an Indian's mr the lorelornent little v.-alf of a lost puppy, with the most beautiful beau-tiful dogs eyes I have ever seen lie scrambled t his fe.-t and uaea his eye thnt settled It for us. Without further In-tl In-tl CdUCtlOO we offered him the remains of ur dinner. He accepted " with three gulps und then al I wagging Ms i r little tali, asking for mora We were camping and trailing ut In the wind River mountains Brandt and I back of the Shoshone Indian reservation reserva-tion .md we had halted for dinner in a s.naii canyon In tin- shade f the roxk wall from whose summit Flapjack h .i tried his lltl le a rob itl Btunl Whether h. came from an Indian encampment near bi which we had "..i Been, or u.. Just plain lost and fending for himself alone In the wilderness we did not kn.-w. H. told 1 1 9 about fending for n 's 11 while ii'' atfj his dinner, an' thai II was "an awful" harrl I'fe and sometimes -iy llsrouragln After dinner h told us that our scraps were thr very I. est fo.i.l he had -vr .al.-n. that .nil .mt-lit. .mt-lit. our hors.'s an.l mule, the finest he had, eyei seen that we oui'selvcs wen gods, wise and very great; that he loved the ground we trod on. and only asked t. stu with us forever So he stayed. Jinny the mule, returned his compliments compli-ments unopened, and told him what she thought of him by showing the und r Bldi "f her left Off hind fodl and putting la- k h ; . ars Hut tht-n Jlnni was the only aristocratic person In camp. In h-r Own "pinion and you may tak- thai !'..r what It Is worth. She didn't prejudice us against Flapjack Still, Brandt and I happened not t.. share Jinny's opinion of herself. Brandt was In thf habit of remarking re-marking on seventeen separate arid several sev-eral occasions each day that "even fer a i mule Jinny Is the krw-downdest one i ever set my eyes on." At the ik'ht ..f her hoof Flapjack made ludicrous little duck with his head and came back t. m volubly explaining that "Of course, the mule ht-liiK yourst don't you kt,(. she dimply must be thr- very finest, sweet-tempered 'animal in the world, don't you kn..s' and altogether abpve reproach don't you Iwow?" That W..N us complete! And h- never onfce reproached her for anything she did even when she kicked him Into the liver He treated her with distant courtesy always without so much as a yap In her direction. And It wasn't hecauBe he was afraid of mule, either l-.raii.li and l will den) that imputation against his valor to our dying da . Iet '' g' mule rr horse fet in among ours, and Flapjack was a very Hon of ferocity until h.- had yapped him out of slghl "Think we'd better look for their camp?" I asked, putting th dlahes into Jinny's pack. Whal the purp a Injuns" Not much!" answered Brandt. "If they haven't seen us, let em alone. An" If they have why. we've got to wait proper Introductions. I move we hike " So we hiked, and Flapjack hiked with us. We kept on our trail If such It could he called; a trull whl h probabl no white man but ourselves had ever sel f K1 upon. We were bound for a little lake that we knew, crammed sith the most Innocent Ssh on earth No; i am not going t.. tell you where There are some things you must find out for yourself. If you are game for It. Just as we-did: otherwise. I ou don't deserve to know. After 6ome ten days we arrived, without with-out either adventure or misadventure, at our happy fishing ground and mad. camp on a little preclpjoe at whese foot a deep, dark pool lured monster and luscious lus-cious rarities. In iplte Of his hard journey, little flap-Jack flap-Jack had Improved amazingly as to health, not as to manners; for from th--first day we knew him he had the most pel f. i I m. .me is of any .log I ever m i if you Hung him a ci u it he bo appn riafed It it was the very nicest crust the daintiest morsel, one could h ive; Just as evervlhlng wc did was simply rfeel In his eyes. And he wasn't servile about It. either He slmph apprned of every hlng we did. and told us so In an el.Hti. rit. dumb way of his own We made camp for 8 two weeks ita? felled a tree for l-acklog. and fixed thlnr;s eenerallv t" he . oinfortnble. all und. i hi.-i supervising sye And when it dun. , and the friendship lire lighted, he lay down before It as one of us and said, This Is home. " So we llshcd and were happy; and t. WSJ lUli.d some more and v.'.t. happier;! w,- fished more and mure and wcrefSBB pi. r and happl. i every daj Do yO0H dcrstand thai feeling? If youJM known Wvomlng camp fires. yOttH Carter Hamilton in St. Nicholas. MM |