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Show e "I'm going to bring you a cup "of 0 herb tea, and then I'll go and lie down d for a wblle." . ;t Since, as I afterward learned, the if dose she gave me was some sort of g home-brewed sleeping draft, I very nenrly slept the clock round. Daddy 3 came In and helped me Into my clothes e they were eating their noon meal t when I woke up and called and apart r from being still a bit headachey and 1 tottery, I was all right again. But " for two whole days they made me sit t around and be waited on, hand and r foot, and coddled and petted, those , two; for their own flesh and blood they couldn't have done more. r CHAPTER VIII. , The Laboring Pumps. h On the third day after I had tried l'1 to brain myself In the old boiler I was ft : pretty nearly as good us ever, and my . two Good Samaritans reluctantly con- oi sented to my going back to "work, tl: . Jeanie renewing the bandage on my I ! broken head, and laying many Injunc- fll tions upon Daddy Hiram to send me hi : right back to the cabin if I didn't be- I i have; "behaving," in her use of the ('i word, meaning that 1 was to take it easy on the job. hr That sounded mighty good to me, a the way she said it. Host men, I fan- ch cy, are only overgrown children In the nn sense that they like to be fussed over l.v by their womankind. Don't mistake st me, please; I wasn't In love with her nl; then. Candidly. I don't think I knew ro what a real love was. But it was l.v mighty pleasant to live In the same ru house with her, und to eat her delicious deli-cious cooking; to be with her every It day, and to have those undisturbed I evening half-hours with her in front be of the (ire. If 1 had had to get out ; tiler til-er if there had been another man . . . tlu but I won't anticipate. oj( In due time ami alter we had com- an plctcly overhauled the rusted and guinnicd-up machinery. Daddy and 1 a happened upon a day when we were of ready to put lire under Ihe boilers and lin we did it. If I should live in be a I'e hundred years old. 1 shall never forget Jul. the tense, suppressed excitement that las gripped nie as we brought the worn! for a ci the furnaces that bright, hot, July lur morning. By eight o'clock we had if : ninety pounds of steam pressure on ma the boilers, hut we held oO" until It P,u had climbed to the regular working I pressure of one hundred and twenty, gut Then I started the pumps; two big I'm. centrifugal suctions, mn. lined on n i-ol platform In the shaft n.oinh ami si, he:: arranged that ihey could be h.wenil lo to follow the wuter level down If It a should go down; pumps that each rn threw a stream six imhes in dm lei. the After the pumps were siarled and ;tt the indicators showed, or seemed to gri: show, thai they were working up to 'on .f,"Ui'.tvn'iln,nl'.ri""M) rr.-ns rVtrr! J i,r- Stockman, would you be in- (terested in services from' Pure-Bred HoLtein Hulls, rated sires, of four S times Ormshy Strain? These sires !ar from cows ranging from 7 to luu, callous daily. At the present ; time ihese animals are topping an (herds tested by the Utah County Testing Assoiiation I ran place roil in from seven to twelve Registered Holstein Bulls. One of their dams j cave (2 lbs. of butter fat in .",0 days All the hulls have established re I cords s. s!r;s. The original bull cost i i I , "El: roth--r to Old Duchess Schuv-r. : -r the strain 1 Four OrTlfhv-. i , 1 v fr r.ree or four days; let me your wants C. L. NELSON, Frovo, UUh, |