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The buckboard jarred Billy Butler at every
rut in the road. It wasn't easy fo> a thirteen-
year-old to hold onto trie rough, rawhide
reins, but a lot depended on this trip. Dad
Butler was in bed, with fever, and needed
medicine cs well os foodstuffs. Farming lond
In the [togle Basin was fertile but it was
thirty miles from the nearest town. It was
courage like the Butlers' that was pushing the
Western borders towards the Pacific Ocean

Billy wiped the perspiration out of his eyes,
and patted the five dollars sewn to his pocket
Let's see, he was supposed to get flour
salt pork . . barley . paregoric .
and . . . and ... oh, yes, deposit a dollai
in the bank. Billy was very grateful when
he saw the two-story frome houses of the
town.

He hitched the two geldings in front of
Barney's Drygoods, and hurried inside. Billy
did not like to buy groceries from Barney
because he always smelted of whiskey and
he mistreated his hired boy, Jed. Billy was
loading the flour when a familiar voice said,
"Hi!" Billy turned ond faced young Jed.

"Hi, Jed!" grinned Billy. Because neigh-
bors were not plentiful in the West, Jed was
Billy's best (as well as only) friend.

"Did you get your new Winchester?" asked
Jed, eagerly.

"Naw. Not yet. Paw's been sick. I gotta
hurry back with his medicine."

"There's gonna be o horse race tonightl"
exclaimed Jed. "Could you stay an' see It?"

Billy shook his head. "Con't. Paw's sick.
I'm going over to the bank now."

"Gosh, Billy, I'm sure sorry about your
father." There was genuine concern in th«
boy's face as he spoke. He remembered, with,
pleasure, the infrequent trips to Billy's home,
The toll, raw-boned man who was never too
tired to listen and answer o boy's eager que*-
fion filled him with admiration. He was a mine
of information about birds and wild animal*
and his stories of wild life and their wayi
kept the boys entranced.

Jed was fond of him all right. Perhaps »
was because Jed, on orphan, longed for af-
fection and he received little pf it from his
boss, Barney.

Now Jed said a reluctant goodbye to Billy
who hurried over to the bank.

"What did you do, young fella? Strike a
bonanza?" chuckled the teller.

"Put it in my father's account," said Billy,
soberly.

At the precise moment the clerk reached
for the dollar, the front door whirled open
ond three masked men, holding guns, rushed

"We don't want any killing," growled one
of the men. "So don't anybody move,"

The three desperadoes scooped up the
money ond ran for the door. But, in their
hoste, one accidentally knocked the mask off
the leader. He pulled it back In place before
anyone— except Billy-sow his face. Almost as
quickly os they had come, they were gone.

Billy slipped away before the sheriff came,
ond started the buckboard towards the form.
He wasn't a law officer. It wasn't his job to
catch crooks. That's what the sheriff was for.
Besides, Jed was his friend and why should
he make more trouble for him?

Billy got as far as Willow Creek before he
knew he had to turn back. The man whose
mask had slipped was-Barney- Jed's boss.
THE END

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AND THE HAWK C0D6E3 STUBBORNLY, UNWILLING TO
LOSt HIS FISH TO THE OTHER

YOliTAKE THE R1VERBANK

UPSTREAM, LITTLE BUCK ]

STRONG EAGLE WILLTAKE THE

DOWNSTREAM BANK AND '

I WILL HUNT TO THE SOUTH!
IFYOU MEET ENEMIES-SHOUT!

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oi sunlight filtering through the leaves. When
the- young elk lies down on brown pint needles (
■■ in ■■>.:, ■ lari Forest floor, he blends so per-
■ii. -i thai often he cannot
be seen ever, bom very close range.

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