CHIVALROUS; AND OF ABUNDANT MEANS Around the Two Forks Valley the snow still lay white and clean upon the peaks, but the feet of the mountains were bathed in a rising flood of green.

On the bottom lands the grasses began to start, the willows renewed their leafery.

On the pools of the limpid stream the trout left wrinkles and circles at midday now, as they rose to feed upon the insects swarming in the warmth of the oncoming sun.
On this particular morning Wid Gardner turned down the practically untrod lane along Sim's wire fence.

Now and again he glanced at something which he held in his hand.
When he entered Sim Gage's gate, the ancient mule, his head out of the stable window, welcomed him, braying his discontent.

Here lay the ragged wood pile, showing the ax work of a winter.