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Show PIUTE COUNTY NEWS, JUNCTION, UTAH iSP ?dEveiii6 MREE, Son of Kazan Fairy Tale jyfWN GRAHAM BONNER By JAMES OLIVER GURWOOD LUCYS BIRTHDAY Doubled, Pa CCCeOCOCOOQCOOOOCCOOCOCOCOQCCCOCOSeCCCOCCOQOQOOOCeOOOCCeCCCCOOCCC Continued was a splendid night that followed. Perhaps Baree would have slept through It In his nest on the top of the dam If the bacon smeir had not stirred the new hunger In him KInce his adventure In the canyon, the deeper forest hod held a dread for him, especially at night. Put this night was like a pale, golden day: It was moonless; hut the stars shone like a billion distant lamps, flooding the world In a soft and billowy sea of tight. A gentle whisper of wind made pleasant sounds In the treetops. Beyond that It was very quiet, for It was the Moulting Moon ruskowepeslm and the wolves were not hunting, the owls had lost their voice, the foxes slunk with the silence of shadows, and even the heavers had begun to cease their labors. The horns of the moose, the deer and the caribou were In tender velvet, and they moved but little end fought not at all. It was late July, Moulting Moon of the Cree, Moon of Silence for the t'hlppewa.van. In this silence Paree began to hunt. He stirred up a family of partridges, hut they escaped him. lie pursued a rabbit that was swifter than lie. For an hour he had no luck. Then he heard a sound that made every drop of blood In him thrill, lie was dose to McTaggart's enmp, and what tie had hpnrd was a rabbit In one of lie came out McTaggarts snares. Inio a little starlit open and there he saw the rabbit going through a most limit clous pantomime. It amazed him for a moment, and he stopped In his half-grow- n bitterly before he surrendered himself tothe smothering embrace of the Factor's blunket. On this night Fate had played a strange hand for them both, and only that Fate, and perhaps the stars above, held knowledge of what Its outcome was to be. Half an hour later Bush McTaggarts fire was burning brightly again. In the glow of It Baree lay trussed up like an Indian papoose, tied Into a n-shaped ball with bablche thong, his head alone showing where his raptor had cut a hole for It In the blanket. He was hopelessly caught so closely Imprisoned In the blanket that he could scarcely move a muscle of his body. A few feet away from him McTaggart was bathing a bleeding hand In a basin of water. There was also a red aireak down the side of McTaggarts bullish neck. "You little devil 1" he snarled at Baree. "You little devil He reached over suddenly and gave Barees bead a vicious blow with his heavy hand. I might to beat your brains out, and I believe I will I Baree watched him as he picked up a stick close at his side a bit of firewood. Pierrot had chased him, but this was the first time he had been near enough to the to see the red glow In his eyes. They were not like the eyes of the wonderful creature who had almost caught him In the web of her hair, and who bud crawled after him under the rock. They were beast-ejes- . They balloo- man-monst- Wapoos, the rabbit, had run Ids furry head Into the snare, and his firs! frightened Jump had shot" the sapling lo which the copper'wire was attached so that he was nmv hung half In midair, with only his ldnd feet And there he touching the ground. svns dancing madly while the noose caliout his neck slowly choked him to denth. Paree gave a sort of gasp. lie could understand nothing of the part that the wire and the sapling were playing In this curious game. All he could see was that Wnpoos was hopping and dancing about on his hind legs In a most puzzling and unrabbit-llkfashion. ..It may be that he thought It some sort of play. In this Instance, however, he did not regard Wapoos as lie hnd looked on Umlsk the beaver, lie knew that Wapoos made mighty fine eallng, and after another moment or two of hesitation he darted upon Ms prey. Wapoos, half gone already, made almost no struggle, and In the glow of the stars Baree finished him, and for half an hour afterward he feasted. McTaggart had heard no sound, for the snare Into which Wnpoos had run Ms head was the one set farthest from his camp. Ileslde the smoldering coals of his fire he sat with his hack to a tree, smoking his black pipe and dreaming covetously of Nepeese, when Haree continued his Itaree no longer had the desire to hunt. He was too full. Hut lie nosed In and out of the starlit spaces, immensely the stillness and the golden glow of the night, lie wus folwhen lie came to lowing a rabbit-rua place where two fallen logs left a trail no wider than Ids body, lie squeezed through; something tightened about his neck; there was a midden snap a swish ns the sapling was released from Its trigger" and Itaree was Jerked off his feet so suddenly that he hnd no time to conjecture ns to what was happening. The yelp in his throat died In u gurgle, and the next moment he was going through the pantomimic actions of Wapoos, who was hating his vengeance inside him. For the life of him Haree could not keep from dancing about, while the wire grew tighter and tighter about his neck. Furiously he struggled. It was a miracle that the fine wire held him. In a few moments more It must have broken but McTaggart hnd heard him The Factor caught up his blanket and a heavy stick, as he hurried toward the snare. It was not a rabbit making those sounds he knew that. Perhaps a fisher-ca- t a lynx, a fox, a young wolf It was the wolf he thought of first when he saw Itaree at the end of the He dropped the blanket and wire. raised the club. If there had been clouds overhead, or the stars had been less brilliant, Baree would have died as surely as Wapoos had died. With the club raised over his head McTaggart saw In time the white star, ear and the Jet the white-tippe- d black of Barees coat With a swift movement he exchanged the club for the blanket. In that hour, could McTaggart have looked ahead to the days that were to come, he would have used the club. Joutd ne have foreseen the great tragedy In which Baree wa9 to play a Stal part, wrecking Ills hopes and destroying his world, he would have beaten him to a pulp there under the gill of the stars. And Baree, could oe have foreseen what was to happen between this brute with a white skin ond the most beautiful thing In the forests, would have fought even more man-monste- ond. McTaggart laughed again, and he walked still faster. There was no chance of Ills losing no chance for Nepeese to get away from him. He Bush McTaggart was lord of this wilderness, master of its people, arbiter of their destinies. He was power and the law. The sun was well up when Pierrot, standing In front of his cabin with Nepeese, pointed to a rise In the trail three or four hundred yards away, over which McTaggart had Just appeared. He Is coming." With a face which had aged since last night he looked at Nepeese. Again he saw the dark glow In her eyes and the deepening red of her parted Ups, and his heart was sick again with dread. Was It possible She turned on him, her eyes shining, her voice trembling. Nootawe you must "Uemember, send him to me for his answer," she cried quickly, and she darted into the cabin. With a cold, gray face, Pierrot faced Bush McTaggart. e ! sew, the outlaw owl. The vengeful animosity of the wolf was burning In him now, along with the savuge courage of the dog. Baree did not take his eyes from McTaggart as he smoked. He watched the man when the latter stretched himself out on the hare ground and went to sleep. He listened, still later, to the heinous snoring. Again and again during the long night He he struggled to free himself. would never forget that night. It was terrible. In the thick, hot folds of the blanket Ills limbs and body were suffocated until the blood almost stood still In his veins. Yet he did not whine. They began to Journey before the sun was up, for If Barees blood was almost dead within him. Bush McTaggarts was scorching Ills body with the heat of Its anticipation. He made his last plans as he walked swiftly through the forest with Baree under his arm. He would send Pierrot at once for Father Grotin at his Mission seventy miles to the west He would marry Nepeese yes, marry her! That would tickle Pierrot. And he would be alone with Nepeese while Pierrot was gone for the raissioner. This thought flamed McTaggarts blood like strong whisky. There was no thought In Ills hot and unreasoning brain of wlmt Nepeese might say of what she might think. He was not after the soul of her. Ills hand clenched, and he laughed harshly as there flashed on him for an Instant the thought that perhaps Pierrot would not want to give her up. Pierrot Bah ! It would not be the first time he had killed a man or the sec! tracks Chapter VII You Little Devlll" made him shrink and try to draw his head hack Into the blanket as the stick was raised. At the same time he snarled. His white fangs gleamed in the firelight. His ears were fiat. He wanted to sink his teeth In the red throat, where lie had already drawn blood. The stick fell. It fell again, and whi'n McTaggart was done Baree lay his eyes partly closed by the blows and his mouth bleeding. Thats the way we take the devil out of a wild dog, snarled McTaggart. "I guess you wont try the biting game A thousand again, eh, youngster? devils hut you went almost to the hone of this hand! He began washing the wound again. Barees teeth had sunk deep, and there was a troubled look in the Factors face. It was July a bad month for bites. From his kit he got a small flask of whisky and turned a bit of the raw liquor on the wound, cursing Baree as It burned Into his half-stunne- flesh. eyes were fixed on He knew that at last he had met the deadliest of all his enemies. And yet he was not afraid. The club In Bush McTaggarts hand had not killed his spirit. It had killed his fear. It had roused In him a hatred such as he had never known not even when he was fighting Oohoomi- - Barees half-shu- him steadily. t PARTY AC) WNU Service Chapter VI Daddy 5 From the window, her face screened by the folds of the curtain which she had made for It, the Willow saw. what happened outside. She was not smiling now. She was breathing quickly, and her body was tense. She heard McTaggarts coarse voice, his boisterous greeting, and then she saw him showing Pierrot what he carried under his arm. There came to her distinctly his explanation of how he had caught He unIlls captive In a rabbit-snarwrapped the blunket. Nepeese gave In an Instant a cry of amazement. she was out beside them. She did not loolv at McTaggarts red face, blazing In Its joy and exultation. "It Is Baree! she cried. She took the bundle from McTaggart and turned to Pierrot. Tell him that Baree belongs to me," she said. She hurried Into the cabin. McTaggart looked after her, stunned and amazed. Then he looked at Pierrot A man half blind could have seen that Pierrot was as amazed as he. had not spoken to him the Factor of Lac Bain! She had not looked at him! And she had taken the dog from him with as little concern as though he had been a wooden man. The red In his face deepened as he stared from Pierrot to the door through which she had gone, and which she had closed behind her. Ne-pet'- (TO BE CONTINUED.) Great Voices Called Accidents of Nature mental tones produced In the larynx. Great voices are rare and undoubtedly owe their wonderful purity of The lungs form the bellows which tone to an accidental combination of produce the upward blast of air, and those physical characteristics which upon their quality depends the loudlead to the production of song. The ness of the voice. London Daily Mall. human musical instrument, though built of living tissues, resembles In Milk Products Old structure the reed organ pipe fitted Butter was known for at least 2,000 with a vox humana stop. In both cases the note depends on the vibra- years before the Christian era. It was tions of a column of air produced In not used as food, however, but mostly the organ by a reed and In the voice as a medicine and ointment, and In by the vocal cords. The human air some parts was employed ws an illnml-naThe butter was for lamps. chamber corresponding to the organ pipe Is composed of the larynx and churned crudely In skin bags or the bronchial system beneath 1L very Inferior pouches, and was The throat mouth and nasal cavi- article. Cheese has been known slao ties form the resonators which, by the earliest times, the oldest mention alternation In shape and size, are of it occurring in 1400 B. C. it was able to pick out and emphasize cer- used as an article of food before tain component parts of the funda nt Lucy Is a year older. She hadnt really anything to do with it at all. She just became a year older. It was because of the days and the moments and the hours which kept mounting up until a whole year had passed by since her last birthday. And so Lucy became a year older. Her birthday started early iu the morning i t started before she woke up, but then no one counts the part of a birthday that Is spent in bleeping. She got two pretty birthday cards in the mall during the morning. She got a bill from a dear old neighbor who was celebrating his eighty-firs- t birthday. Lucy kissed him eighty-on- e times and gave him elghty-ouhugs, and that makes a good many kisses and a good many hugs, you know. Lucy said she was going to get a coat with part of her money, after she had talked it over with her mother, ami with the rest of the money she would get an Ice cream soda. As you can see, most of the money would be spent on the coat. But a birthday lee cream soda xould be nice. She planned to have it on the day after her birthday, as on the birthday itself she was going to have ice cream and cake. Now the decorations at Lucys birthday party are always pink and white. The decorations at Jennies birthday party are always yellow and white. Her birthday comes earlier in the year. On Lucys birthday table or rather on the table which was set for the party and In tlie very center was a rose bush made of paper with a big, criukly pink rose on the top. Attached to the rose were pink and white ribbons, and these ribbons led down to place cards by each placet At the end of the ribbons In the big pink rose were pretty favors. There were owls and alligators and deer and rabbits not real ones, you know, of course, but little toy ones. Everyones place card had his or her name written upon It, and in the corner of each place were two little birds, standing close together. They were blue birds. There were pink snappers beside each place and the plates for the Ice cream were edged with greet, and a flowery pattern in with the green which made them look very flowery and summery. Then about the big rose bush were little cardboard boys and girls carry, lng cardboard and pftper pails and shovels on their way to play in cardboard sand. pepperThere were mints, and there was ice cream. The cake was very beautiful. It had pink decorations all around the bottom of It, and it was iced In white. Then across the top Lucy's name and the year of her birth and the date of the present year, were Iced In pink, and decorating the sides and the border were the prettiest pink grapes and pink leaves, all made out of icing. Ileally, youve no idea how pretty little pink grapes do look, even if there arent any pink grapes in ten-doll- e Football Popular WO!,UN than 2,539,756 persons witnessed the various games for the football association cup. In England, which was won recently by Bolton No fewer Wanderers. This constitutes a record attendance for the competition, as also does the amount of money paid In by the spectators, which was 204,119, an Increase of 18,500 over the previous best season. F rozen Eggs From China CON-QUE- RS FEARS Husband Delighted and Home Happier St Paul, Minn. Here is A little advice I would like to have you put la Mrs. the papers, Jack Lorberter of Dell wood Place wrote to the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company. If young women want to keep their health and strength for the next thirty years of their lives, It is best to start in right now and take Lydia E. Plnkhams Vegetable Compound. I have tried the Compound myself and received fine reFurs F rom Alaska sults from its use. In describing her Furs shipped from Alaska to the condition before taking the Compound, United States since Its purchase in she writes, "I was afraid in my own 1S07 have been appraised at $98.W0,-000- . house in broad daylight, I used to The value of last years output lock the doors and pull down the shade, so that nobody could see me. W'as $3,000,000. Ninety per cent of advertising the the world's fur seals are in a herd One day a booklet was left on her Vegetable Compound owned by the United States govern- porch and she read it through. In so ment In the Pribilof islands, off the doing, she found a letter from a woman coast of Alaska. The herd numbers whose condition was similar to her own. "I bought Lydia E. Pinkhams approximately 700,000. Vegetable Compound, Mrs. Lorberter continued, and have had fine results. Perfumes to Cost More My condition made me a burden to my Grasse, France, the perfume center husband. 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