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He again at the page table before him and life shed reading 'Til alter your on bodily your recess depends " Come alongl Howard! Gee, loward closed the pamphlet and chair. Wont it p from his w Fllcka up the path? It cant Its too steep. It tried always took his toward need down aed on the IH tyj epu Cit cant make it It Christmas! Jiminy said How- - "whatll we do? It might die all 8taya out In this storm it carry It! cried Ken Come on! Thats what une to get you for. We gotta he two boys ran up the gorge, sing the stables Ken hesitated. im-ientl- y. We'll regular little kicking may-re- ll he said doubtfully, He have to tie him led into the stables. shouted How-- , Bring a lantern! with two and Ken emerged a halter and lead-rop- e Flicks and the stable lantern. s . temperature was falling face flamed and burned the heat within him and the cold without but he didnt tt All he could think of was white foal white 1 hey slithered down the steep not much more than a gully bj the rain In the cliff, and saw mare and foal ust as Ken had a 1 rap-Ken- (hem. exclaimed Howard, fhite! halt-lu- st as Ken had done, the foal. Howard! he said, keeping wlce calm, while I'm lying on -- tie his hind feet together, can elf on fere, nrd accomplished this, then over and the two boys front feet and stood up, while Fllcka grunted the prone body of her foal. rolled fc ft. Bug cant ever carry him up that aald Howard, lighting the o. "He weighs a ton never ch a husky colt And la he fe T sure la, said Ken proudly, to be hes been in there two more than a year Just and eatin look Howard, have to get him up on Fllcka. carry him. 'd fan of?, objected Howard i MU "2 iWI IWly. ride can hwU her too and hold him on lead her. we get him up? "I him. rd hung of the lantern on the a tree and the two boys the struggling foal in their 'nd hoisted him onto the back 'dam. atood with her head turned, them, but she seemed to he moment her own foal was V' withers, and though she r head turned to see what eja would do next, she became leg up," gasped Ken, her side, holding the And Howard placed Bee and hand and Ken Sled up behind the colt, hold him? asked I against Position. I?" k I think so Ken leaned colt, grasping Flicka's Jrd took the lantern, picked lead rope, and went tlSl knew now Just what aha oo. 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Pattern Size No Name Address sizes 12, requires Shirtwaist Frock your favorite HERE isfrock with brief cap sleeves for summer coolness. Ideal for your busy summer program in gayly striped fabrics, checks or floral prints. near-mythic- al her halter on and iped the rope. Then th two boys (her tried to grip the foal but quealed and bit and seemed to i dozen thrashing legs, ddenly Howard slipped and sat i The colt, too, ;ost his footing fell snd Fllcka whirled nervous-si stood over him. Ken threw a slipped , Many Wivci Aid the Enemy REATURfcW over him and smelled Bell Syndicate. WNU Featuraa. and licked gether and settled down on the hto and gave the deep, .oft, grunt-to- g Goose Bar ranch, Rob whinny by which a mare re-hMcLaughlin, NeU. his little one. The foal and toe young New England wife, black mare, Rob ItS feet daggered about bought more mares andGypsy. built up his uncertainly, .hook itself, then foundation stock. Then, one spring. teat toding the bone Gypsy disappeared. of the thigh, instead, it gave a sav-ag- e The McLaughlin ranch was bite at it and kicked out in not the only one in that section of anger. Wyoming from which a fine mare Gosh! Look at it!" exclaimed disappeared. There to be talk Bowi -- wu, me, mtle of a white stallion, began a big devil but a lotta horse," who ugly y had Ken said nothing but watched anxthe open land of Monranged iously. The foal found the teat at tana, had come across the border last. during a drought, and had gathered You stay here, Howard, will a band of mares in the open land you? asked Ken. IU go down and of Wyoming, stealing from ranchers, make her some mash. You down fences, fighting and might tearing even killing other stallions. give her some clean straw. He reigned for six Ill rub her down," offered Howyears. Then a ard generously, and as Ken left the number of ranchers banded tostable he got a dry sack and rubbed gether, held a round-up- , and caught her streaming back and flanks and the Albino and his mares, finding brands from all over the state on neck. A half hour later the mare and the hides of the stolen mares. foal stood content and dry and comGypsy of the Goose Bar ranch fortable with a deep bed of dry was there with four beautiful colts. straw under them and a pail of Rob McLaughlin was delighted with their looks and speed and outstandmash for Flicka in the feed box. Shes all right now," said How-ar- ing personalities, and took them at the door of the barn. "Come home with him, feeling that Gypsya philandering might contribute valuon Mollie , she says, il a perfectly good girl, hut she has her friends at the house all the time, who are laughing and making candy and going to afternoon Ken pretended to be casual and able qualities to his polo stock. But he found it impossible to offhand. I want to wait till shes break and train the colts. Even By KATHLEEN NORRIS though the fillies were bred by BanMORALE WRECKERS ner, the Goose Bar stud, than whom HINGS have just been no horse could be more intelligent running down at home or better mannered, yet the offIt is every womans duty to since Ted and Larry showed the outlaw strain. spring try to preserve the morale of whined He explained It to his boys. "Colts went away to war, the men of her family who are learn from their mothers. They copy a woman to me in the market fighting. She should do everythem. Thais why its practically im- the other Ypu see, she day. thing she can to preserve and, possible to raise a was when possible, to improve the went on, making Larry colt from a dam. The situation at home. W hen there colts are corrupted from birth. That good money and he helped to th? rule. There are, of course, out a lot, and by this time I are difficulties that she cannot have some very strik- suppose Ted would have been cope with, she should tell her soldier little or nothing about ing exceptions among our . own a wage-earne- r, too. Now with horses. Here is Gypsy, the them. Perhaps they will clear Dad at home, mare In the world with a just Betty and up in any case they can wait. bunch of wild hoodlum colts abso- we are the most dismal group Seldom can the poor fellow in lutely unbreakable. you can imagine, and the a distant camp do anything Is it because they were born and money trouble doesnt help to about them, anyway. He has brought up with that fang of wild console us! I cant wait to enough to contend with, strughorses? asked Howard. have the boys get back, when gling against the enetny, and 'Its because of the prepotency of we can get all straightened enduring discomforts of all the stallion, said Rob grimly. His sorts. Letters disparaging his wildness outweighs all her gentle- out, pay our debts and start over. wife, telling of family quarness and that of her tong line of rels and financial problems, do I looked at this woman in amazearistocratic forbears. Some stalment She loves her sons; she will serious damage to the spirit of lion! But all of this was an old story to grieve bitterly if either is taken by the front-lin- e fighters. Howard and Ken. They had grown war. And yet she could stand there up on the Goose Bar ranch, familiar and tell me, with a sort of melanty for which he is fighting arent with talk and speculation about the choly pride, that the welcome prois either home or secure. The devas- for of the vided the Alfamily boys the personage, debts, tating breath of war is not only bino, and witnessing their; fathers going to be complaints, blighting his life now, at the terrible struggles with the outlaw strain anxieties, responsibilities no heartbattle front, but it has destroyed which, through Gypsy, had been in- ening assurance of the familys solvency and security, no encourag- everything else, too. troduced into the breeding stock. Grim, Vital Days Ahead. Kens actual involvement in this ing plans for rest and recuperation just the old tedious complaining tangle was of more recent date. On would like to remind these I a day a little more than three years, and protesting against the general women that we are gohe and Gus had been working injustices of fate. ago ing into grim and vital postwar The foal lay Uke a sack of meal son to woman wrote Another her in the meadow, and came upon a Every woman in America across Flickas withers. that she and his grandmother, who days. new-bor- n foal and its dam. will be a help or a burden to the had been have have living together, finished her mash. You go on down. ex"Luk at de little flicka I world then so serious a disagreement that they building of the new half-waI wont be long. claimed toe Swedish ranch band. Thouto law about it She asks there will be no are going Howard still hesitated, eyeing bis What does .flicka mean, Gus? him to answer several questions by sands of helpless, selfish, disconyounger brother where the boy stood asked Ken. return mail; Does he remember his tented women will find themselves left out of the their chilleaning on the rail of the manger, ex"Swedish fur leetle gurl, grandmother saying that his mother dren rebellious running, almost under the mares head. plained Gus. at the ' that change to an had been mixed up unsavory Well IU go ahead. Fm goto to And when, a year after that, Rob love affair before her gives them a strange home and a will marriage; make some hot cocoa want some? McLaughlin told Ken he could have he testify that his grandmother new father, their new mates not inHoward was handy at making for his own qny colt on the ranch up often called his mother ugly names, clined to be particularly considerchocolate and flipping eggs and giv- to one year of age, Ken chose that ate of the women who coldbloodedly and so on. could drop old mates during the ing his mother a hand with toe cooksame little golden Ally and named The lonely son, wasting the best crisis of war. ing. her Flicka. years of his life in toe bleak Aleu"Sure! said Ken. You bet! But But thank God there will be other Flicka was out of Rocket by Ban tians, must sit down and handle be sat still on the manger rail, ner. And Rocket was, common the quarrels of the two undisciplined women, millions of them women by watching bis mare, and Howard consent, the wildest of the offspring women. who have written nothing but enwent out, closing the door behind Runs Down His Wife. couraging and loving letters during brought home by Gypsy from her him. women who have this time; with the Albino. Sojourn son woman Another writes her Ken stood listening to Howards Rob McLaughlin was exasper- disparaging letters about his wife. planned practically for the homethe He heard rasp retreating steps. a Mollie, she says, is a perfectly good coming, are saving money, are out of the corral gate being opened and ated. I was hoping youd make of debt and are full of ideas for said. You he wise son, choice, girl, but she has friends at the closed again. Now they were alone, Toms future; women who know of of I think what know Rocket, who house all the are time In himself. laughing and the mare, the foal more than our pilgrim or pithat of horses whole the line its that to and and making candy going the stable was a sweet quietness and oneer mothers needed them, we worst Ive got. There has never been afternoon movies, and the mother-in-lathe smell of hay and horses. l, need now courage, with sense them real one to amongst shame a is thinks have it Ken sat on the manger rail close and is the It stalthe and economy hellions mares are The foresight Bobs money wasted that way. to the feed box in which he had woman who is strong, faithful to her rid of have outlaws. Id lions got And must man a homesick and the of again bucket mash, placed the line of stock if they open letters that fill h& heart with mate, concerned with his welfare mare dipped her muzzle into it, ate this whole and that of the children and able to werent so damned fast that Ive bitterness and despair. head and lifted her then hungrily, live on her income, no matter how some fool idea there that the had day As John for the letters dear chewed, looking at Ken, her long out one gentle one in the these have become a recognized aid small, who is going to be the inears pointed forward. She bad might turn have a race horse. But to the enemy! The "dear John let- spiration, the essential creator, of and lot Id seewith a golden-brow- n eyes gentle to be Flicka." not going ter is a missive that opens with the the new America. its ing expression in them. Looking at love in fallen with Ken had But I have been shattering phrase, Ken, her Intelligent face was not a and could not give her up.-thinking of us and our married life, foot from his. He straightened the her That summer one nightmare dis- and I believe we would both be flaxen forelock that hung between Shifting Curtains Around followed the other. Flicka, as happier if we were to obtain a diaster name now her her eyes, murmuring Makes Them Last Longer as her wicked black mother, vorce and make a fresh start with and then. She swung her head wild aU reason she when other mates. Curtains hung at windows exposed around to look at the sleeping foal fought beyond was roped and brought in. When she Dont smile at this and dismiss it to bright light or sunshine will give The lantern, hung on the corner could escape no other way, she as only an occasional thing. It is a out first Sunlight causes the fabric post, only half lit the stall. made a suicidal leap into toe high very real and desperate menace to to lose its strength. It is a good Now foaL the looked at too Ken barbed-wir- e fence, and there ensued the morale and peace of mind of our plan to make top and bottom hems toe in stable, that he had it safely long illness from the Infected fighting boys. Hundreds and hunof toe same width and then reverse the surprise and worry that he had her wire-cutterminating in McLaugh- dreds of these cruel notes go forth them each time the are washed or felt when he first saw it took poslin's command that, next day, she daily, and the effect they have on a cleaned. Curtains from suny win session of him again. What a o should be shot and put out of. her man whose nerves are shaken al- dows can be shifted occasionally to I A make white to was going this I misery. Ken spent that night with ready by danger, by toe loss of comA on the shady side of the house. Sheets foal white foal out of Flicka her, sitting in the stream where rades, by homesickness, mosquitoes usually wear thin first in the upper the Goose Bar ranch where every had fallen, holding her head in and strangeness may be imagined. center, so reverse them from head one Ipiew Banner, the big golden she arms. Gus came looking for his The woman he loves doesnt want to foot occasionally. Mend all snags the yearly sorrel stud that sired them in the morning, and carried to see him any more. The little chil- promptly. Stitch together the outcolts. of prop with cold and exhaus- dren who cried when daddy went side edges of sheets worn thin in Kens uneasiness was linked to a Ken, helpless house. the to up tion, away wont be his children when he the middle, split them down the series of nearly disastrous events of This caused Kens tong and severe comes back. The home and securi- - center and hem the edges. past years to which he sad a cerof pneumonia, during which, attack inbeen had tain line of horses the filly recovered. volved. This train of events led di- miraculously, More Cloth Coming Soon of the summer, there end the At foal white small the lying The rectly to supply of yard goods tor oke triumph which made up in small towns and there so innocently on the clean hay, was loved The Ken filly and it had begun tong before, when tor everything. will soon be increased. areas rural loved as he her, and he a wild stallion of the plains, called as dearly to Preference ratings will be given to hia to She father, able say was colthe Albino because cf his white merenants In these areas tor the did get gentled, didnt she, dad? distribution of about 150,000,000 or, had stolen a mare from the And Rob McLaughlin answered, Goose Bar ranch. She was the Thor of cotton fabrics, Including yards note tn than usual softer a with oughbred. Gypsy, one of Rob Me voile, sheeting 42 Inches and pongee, a as Gentle ton." kitten, He his voice, Laughlln's foundation mares. wider, cloths, outing flannel print And now here she atood in the had bought her when he was a cadet and gingham. This decision follows docile a at West Point and used her for polo. stall, husky a similar order, issued during the gentle, beautifully trained, resting When he graduated snd then refirst quarter of this year, which was on the fac eyes liquid, trusting her signed from the Army in order to go aimed to correct unequal distribushaken master. by 'Already danger, there were of her young in for tion of piece goods. ckness. BE toCONTINUED) (TO west came three of them that meal ciickaa withera. Lm par Journey waa hen that was accom-- I (i ey were on level ground, opldly toward the stables, whinnied with Joy as the amell reached her nostrils. 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