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"If the kid wants a fire he can have on the scene. They were a man and
it," said Jackson Stake, deeisively. ; a dog'. Father' Gopher had never
"Dangdest thing, the 'way that boN seen them before, and, because he is
twists Susie 'round his finger' Only very curious, he watched, them with
be sure to put it out—clean out." great interest, thinking that such
"Thanks," said Cal. 1 -wonderful big creatures would not
The sun was almost down when* trotable a little gopher who lived only
Cal had finished with bis work, but on grass and seeds. But suddenly it e
the news of a ramp fire and a story dog rushed upon him, with great load
sent Reed and Trite scarpering with barks, louder and lustier than the big -
delight. They built it on a bare spot gest coyote Father Gopher had ever
a short distance from. the `ranary,jheard. Father Gopher was almost
and carried out the Ford eashions so caught before he could rush ,into his
that they count sit about it in. coax- I hole. He was so excited and out of
fort. Although there was fuel for the ibreath that he tumbled in upon Moth-
taking at the woodpile they preferred i er Gopher and the children and could
to gather dry branches among the ;hardly speak. Then they heard the
poplars; it made the fire more real- great claws digging, just like Fatty
istic, and when the flames were; Badger, and they were in a dreadful
crackling and the ruddy glow flicker I panic, because if they ran out- at the
ing on the granary wall they were back door the man would be sure to
again gentlemen adventuresunafraid. catch them. But just as it seemed
Reed gathered up his feet,, with his their end had come—they could hear
the sniffing of a great nose within a
arms about his ankles, and the red
firelight painting his face. "All right, foot of their home—the man whistled
Daddy X," he said. "Let 'er go."and ran away.on the dog ' he pulled his head out
"Once upon a time," Gal began, "Good)" said Reed, "I was afraid
"the gopher used to bark like a dog. he was going to get 'em."
That was long before the first Olds „Yes, so was I. But the dog ran
imer came to the prairies, and the away when the man whistled, and Fa-
ophers had only themselves to bark
ther Gopher plucked up his courage
, and sometimes a coyote or a fox.and followed along in a little path
The coyote and the fax, and the big which his own people had made: in
awl that sometimes hung overhead,
'the grass, and he noticed that every
were their enemies, and: when they. little while the than whistled: and then
were near, Father Gopher stayed the dog would run to him, And he
lose to the hole he had dug in the said to himself, `If I could whistle
oft, warm earth, and made Mrs. trop •
like that the dog would obey me u
her and the baby gophers keep out of he obeys the man.' -So he stood up
fight nolle danger was over. Some- and tried, and he found that he could
times Father Gopher would stand whistle almost as loud as a man„ and
tmight as a stick on the little mound ever since then the gopher has wliist-
of earth at the door of his home and led instead of barking.:'
pretend not to see the great { Theysat in silence when the story
poising overhead. Then with a and).
den swoop the hawk would come at was finished. Darkness had settled
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with the speed of an express down; the little fire glowed gipsy-
rain, but Father Gopher had not like before them; whiffs of its #rag-
been asleep, and just as:the cruel tat- rant smoke fondled about their faces
obut to close on him he ' and tickled their nostrils with its fea-
victory and tither tions ..00uKuc o.•••
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ns were about
could dart under cover, chuckling there" pungency. They had been so
u lila And Mother Gopher interested that the approach of an in,' " she continued, turning toward
nd Laughing. automobile to the house had been un- him. '"Gander brought vie home in:
vould scold him for his rashness, and
sk him to think what would become heard. and Cal was not prepared for the car, and when I came out to get
children if anything should,a girlish Toice almost at his elbow. same groceries which I had left in it
f the think she was:
"Interesting—if true," the voice- re- I saw the fire by the granary, so 1
appen him, but I ;marked, and Cal sprang to his feet rambled down. Then I found there
gond of her brave husband just the
e and it made her heart glow in I. She was standing a step or two was. serious business on hand,:so I
am •didn't interrupt. Of course Gander
er little breast to think, how daring i away from them, somewhat'in told about you. He said you were
,e was, and how he could make the shadow of the granary, and the t D. me
port of their great enemy, the dull glow from the fire limned her fi-1 "`I'm not really," Cal ,answered.
gure only in the vague and suggestive ,
,awl "The initials after my Warne --if I: car -
"It was the same with the coyote 1 way which is the gift of art. Indeed,
nd the fox, they thought themselves as it afterwards seemed to Cal, all he ed to use them— would stand. for
ery clever indeed, but Father Gop- saw was her face and head, and imag- something quite different from Doc-
er was more than a match for therh.
'nationfilled in the figure as it does tor of Divinity. What else.had our
friend Gander to report?"
hen they would hide from hint be- in those clever illustrations for ad- She had crossed her was
tinct the clump of willows he would vertisements which have been much Statin her shapely toesankles ande fire.
lark, like they did, but if they stole in vogue. But it was her face he saw pointing
would she into his burrow pink and ruddy and well made, with Cal noted the low shoes, the silk
eul. through he nlips half parted in a bantering', smile stockings the fashionably . cut skirt.
tact ethe thin brown grass eir.:No, it was her eyes he, saw, She rubbed a small heel in the earth,
mall beady eyes would watch their • : - - • •
very movement. It was a clever fox deep and brown glowing. No, it was but she didnot answer.
or coyote that could get the better ofher hair, bronze hair surely; trapping In the glow from the fire
Father Gopher. ,and teasing the ruddy light-- 1
"But he had two enemies that were
"I'm Minnie," she said simply, and
held out her hand.
v,rorthy to be feared, and, curiously "`May�I join your,
enough, they were called Fatty and party? I'm really not so bad mann-
Skiinny. One . was Fatty the Badger, ered as I seem
It was a hard remark to answer.
who, with his great flat back filling Cal mumbled something about being
all the space . in the buffalo path in sure of that, which, of course, was
which he loved to travel, seemed not the right thing to say at all, and
harmless enough. But Fatty had the girl sat down on the cushion be -
more than a big back; he had wond- Side Reed "I know a11, about you
erful long claws on his short little little man," she said, slipping her arm
legs, and not another animal on the around him. "Shall we be friends?"
plains could. make the earth fly like "Yes," said the child, soberly, "but
he could when he started to dig. It you'll have to be friends with Daddy
was a bad day for any gopher when too."
Fatty Badger took it into his thick "Daddy X?"
little head to dig him out. There was "That's my nickname," Cal hasten -
only one thing to do, and that was ed to say, anxious to.avoid any
to move house at once, and as every lengthy explanations.
sirs gopher has a back door as well "Then it's a bargain," she answer -
as a front door, and sometimes little ed. She was facing the hos, but Cal
private
passages to his neighfto3 Iliad a feeling the words were intend -
homes as well, Fatty Badger seldom .
ed for him, There was something
had more than exercise for his frau- unaccountably pleasant in that pre-
ble. But it is a sad thing to see a sumption.
homedestroyed, and Mother Gopher' "I really didn't •intend to 'listen
and the children were always in tears
.vilest they heard the great claws ramp-
ing in the earth above them
"The worst enemy of all was Skin-
ny Weasel, for he was long and thin, r
and a terrible fighter, and could come
right down the hate, and he never
knocked at the door like a gentleman,
but rushed right in, and rather Gop-
her could only make the best fight
he could in the hope that his wife and
children would escape by the back
door while he was selling his life
dearly at the front Otte."
"That is terrible," said Reed.
"Yes, . isn't it? The prairies seem-
ed to be full of the enemies of Path
er Gopher, all stronger and greater
fighters than he, .And yet he propos-
i r 'r's�r wm7.S'R..wra7li.%U' �i
ed and multiplied more than allhis
enemies, because he lived upon the
fruit of the soil and not by preying d�i.a
upon other people, But one day'his
two very greatest enemies appeared E, RTIC
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file of her face was cut as clean as a
camea between Cal and the darkness.
"What else did Gander reporta' the
repeated.
"It was quite favorable," she said,
after a silence. "Shall I tell you?
He said he reckoned if you stuck
around for a while`it wouldn't be so.
hard to keep Sister Minnie on the
farm.
Her :confession brought her face to-
ward him with a laugh;. and suddenly
Cal knew it was her eyes that he had
seen in that first glimpse through the
darkness.
"Let us hope Gander is a good pro-
phet," he said, and they laughed to-
gether.
CHAPTER SEVEN
Sunday morning was a time for
rest, and Cal slept -late. It was sev-
en when he. woke from a sleep
strangely but pleasantly haunted by
visions of a beautiful maiden who had
a disconcerting habit of thrusting her
stockinged feet in the fire: At the
cost of shattering some proprieties
Cal gently but firmly averted the dan-
ger. , It, was a , particularly engaging
kind of heroism, this rescuing of silk-
stockinged
ilkstockinged feet with a beautiful mai-
den attached, and he had something
of a grievance at the .sunlight when,;
pouring in through the window; it in-
terrupted his gallant occupation.
(Continued next week)
Jones:—"Whenever I' try. to borrow
money, -1 try to get it from a pessi-
mist." . .
Brown e --"Why?"
Jones: "A pessimist never expects
to get it bacl."
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