"But here he comes again.

With your gracious permission, I'll make my exit.

Please don't explain to the professor.

It would humiliate me, and think how it would shock and disappoint him!" Lifting his saddle from the ground and starting toward the shed, he said in a louder tone, "Sure, I won't ferget, Miss Kitty; an' you kin tell your paw that there baldfaced steer o' his'n, what give us the slip last rodeo time, is over in our big pasture.

I sure seen him thar to-day." During the days immediately following that first meeting, Kitty passed many hours with Professor Parkhill.