Show ab AMICABLY SETTLED by HA H A nank flank ruffy strode out of his into the hot montana sunshine he be lived alone with his son audry glancing over the sunbaked sun baked plains hei lie noticed something in the distance which caused him to hesitate and look more carefully after a moment he went back into the house and come came out with a field glass leveling tills this nt at the thing that had interested him 1 he saw something that made him swear as he lowered the glass audry he shouted hello came a voice from the shade i ot of the shack mclaughlins Ins cattle have broken into the oats again im going over to give him a piece of my mind la in a few minutes huffy rubyy was astride his pony raising clouds of white alkali kali dust galloping in the direction of mclaughlins ins ranch mclaughlin ln was busy mending a saddle when huffy rode up to him and shouted a somewhat angry El hello ello were there how are you bank glad to see yon say your cattle have broken into ray my oat field again by heck I 1 Is that so go said me lau hila in surprise as he arose A 1 es so and ana better g get et them thein out of there soon several of men were driving out the cattle and repairing the fence on the following afternoon mclaughlin noticed that some cattle were in his wheatfield hastily procuring his he saw that the cattle belonged to huffy aim ahn tit for int at he thought as he saddled his pony mounted and rode away toward kultys ranch when lie he reached ruffas place he found the latter lounging in his bis chair smoking and reading a paper hello mclaughlin ln the trouble I hello lello nank nothing much except that your cattle are sampling my wheat the deuce they are darned critters anyway say audry 1 audry 1 coming up what you want hurry up and get my mavericks out ort of mclaughlins Ins grain be sure to fix the fence tor for good 1 I got you ilow how about some Sunny sunnybrook brook asked rutty huffy no I 1 dont care for any thanks nevertheless we must keep the cat tio out of the grain if we want to do any threshing this fall you are right agreed rutty ruffy the next time your cattle break into my patch of choice silver king oats ill ride over and shoot you up I 1 the same herel here I 1 mclaughlin ln shouted as his horse galloped awa audry was desperately in love with alga so much so indeed that he had saved all his bis money during the lat two years and bought an 1111 automobile because she was very fond of motoring almost every evening they took it a spin together over the plains A few days after mclaughlin ln had bad visited ruffy in regard to the cattle liu lie noticed notice itla alth chagrin and anger anger that ruffes cattle had bad again broken into his bis wheat held field very angry lie be got his rifle jumped onto his already saddled pony and rode away at about the same time hank ruffy became aware of the he net fact that anic laughlina Laugh lins cattle had again strayed into his patch of choice silver king outs oats ue he swore lengthily after this psychic relief lie remembered his threat nod and ct at once decided to put it into effect about half way between the ranch houses bouses mclaughlin and ruffy huffy met ruffy huffy shouted do you remember what I 1 said id do if your cattle got into my oats again yep and do you recall what I 1 also bald get off your horse horm I 1 cant shoot you yon in cold blood bitris what I 1 say rin fin quite handy with my coy elsts consequently the two slid fam from their et rheeda eeds slung blung their rilles rifles over the llie sad the file horns and pulled oft off outer clothing then after a cevik fevik fe minutes of sparring spar and invective they closed in on each other and engaged in a regular lar rough and tumble fight this lasted d for or about five minutes too tired ared to fight longer they retreated ted to their hot horns sea and grasped their rifles at this juncture nn an auto ni obile emerged front from a turn in the road and sped toward them so before ithe enraged ranchers could shoot at each other alga and audry had driven their machine between them audry spoke you big men are acting like a couple ot of kids its the worst ive ever heard ot of dont you think it Is a ridiculous comical sc scream reaul he be asked alga who had begun to titter slie she nodded and laughed outright and lie he joined lu in until they were both convulsed with laughter ruffy huffy and mclaughlin ln glowered at each other sheepishly until their chil dren quieted down then audry tool took alga by the hand and said she has promised to malm malf me the file happiest man in the world you know vi hat bat that means forthwith ho he crushed her in his embrace and kissed her blushing cheeks nuffy and mclaughlin sidled toward ec cach it other awkwardly and shook hands gingerly while looking into the sky I 1 iraln would help my oats said nufry uy my wheat also agreed Mc mccaugh Laugh un t K abt 11 bathe by th mcclun tar ct |