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Riders of the Purple Sage

CHAPTER IX
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Here he began fashioning a fence, by driving aspens into the ground and lacing them fast with willows.

Trip after trip he made down for more building material, and the afternoon had passed when he finished the work to his satisfaction.

Wildcats might scale the fence, but no coyote could come in to search for prey, and no rabbits or other small game could escape from the valley.
Upon returning to camp he set about getting his supper at ease, around a fine fire, without hurry or fear of discovery.

After hard work that had definite purpose, this freedom and comfort gave him peculiar satisfaction.

He caught himself often, as he kept busy round the camp-fire, stopping to glance at the quiet form in the cave, and at the dogs stretched cozily near him, and then out across the beautiful valley.


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