"I must have lots of moonlight and several stormy sunsets, and the wind soughing in the branches.

I shall have to buy a new dictionary,--a big, fat, heavy one with the flags of all nations and how to measure the contents of an empty hogshead, and the deaf and dumb alphabet, and everything but the word you want to know the meaning of and whether it begins with ph or an f." She took the saddle off Pard and hung it up by a stirrup on the rusty spike where she kept it, with the bridle hung over the stirrup, and the saddle blanket folded over the horn.

She groped in the manger and decided that there was hay enough to last him till morning, and went out and closed the door.

Her shadow fell clean cut upon the rough planks, and she stood for a minute looking at it as if it were a person.

Her Stetson hat tilted a little to one side, her hair fluffed loosely at the sides, leaving her neck daintily slender where it showed above the turned-back collar of her gray sweater; her shoulders square and capable and yet not too heavy, and the slim contour of her figure reaching down to the ground.