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Friday May 19 1944
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DEPARTMENT
ALMANACS
tor"l?3NV'E'S .PAMEnS ALMANACS
for '1044. Tell when to plant your victors
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Price 23c n copy by mall postage paid.
Blnrhnmton New Tork.
CATTLE FOR SALE
BULLSA??.-SrfCVFUAKVSTAre JEHSCY
dm woady1'orllcht svlce. Their
aams hove nice production record
QAni. wipritKciiT. MitrAN Texas!
COMPRESSOR
iF AMMONIA COMrUESSon. late
model full automatic 4x4 twin cylinder
circulating pump and cooling tower; extel-
lent condition $1000 00. Klein lee Cream
Company cos MiOowen Ilonaton Texas.
. FARMS
040 Acre In Winter Garden about 2 miles
southeast of Asherton. $25 per ncref Write
raei.gtNBCIt?EIt "itos- Tea
FARM MACHINERY
Shh0.8' RECONDITIONED Fnrmalla.
with bedders planters and cultivators.
... OUINSKY IMPLEMENT CO.
1618 S. Laredo St. San Antonio Texas.
FOR SALE
Must Sell at Once
"03 and 4 year old Hereford
n Sysond Calves $ioo 00
J2-Sair. Cows and Calves 05.00
X5-Subject to register IS mths.
to 2 yrs. old Heifers 70.00
xO 3 and 4 year old Hereford
.n Cows all heavy springers... 05.00
0 Young registered Hereford
Cows 4 have calves others
springing 135.00
8--Registered Hereford Bulls 12
to 18 months old big bone
marked perfect none better
ln.T1xas 200 00
J? 3 to 5 year old unbroke Bulls 65.00
10 Cow Ponies 00 00 nn
Can show cattle easily. They are in small
open pastures. Trucks available for haul-
- ?I u?.fomeof lnese Bood homo raised
cattle. Will sell any number from one to
any amount. Have four good farms and
ranches on school bus line electricity.
!e1iphone Paved roads from 50 ncres to
1500 acres priced $15 00 up. Write
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FORMULA RECIPE
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GRASS SEED
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HOGS .
We Want To Sell Registered Duroc Hogs.
Texas A. & M. breeding. Weaned pigs.
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OPPORTUNITY
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WRITE FOR SAMPLE t NESTEGG. At
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SEEDS
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Mall fist seed -wanted and amount each.
Will quote you delivered price.
EMPIRE SEED COMPANY Temple. Tex.
SHEEP
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for sale. I have some good range rams
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- WATER PIPE
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Fast-Growing Whalo
A young blue whale puts on
Weight at the rate of 220 pounds a
day
FOR ITCHING OF
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set this medicated powder. Contains in-
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THE STORY SO FAR: Ten-year-old
Ken McLauchlln can ride any hone on
hli family's Wyoming ranch but he
wnnti a colt of his own. Ills father a
retired army ofllcer refutes because
Ken has not been promoted at ichool
and has thown no tenie of reiponslblllty.
Hut Ken's mother convinces Captain Mc-
Laughlin that the colt may be just what
Ken needs. Ken picks the yearling filly
of a "loco" (no good) mare named
Rocket. A little later Rocket Is sold but
Is killed before she reaches her new
owner. McLaughlin sells all of Rocket's
offspring but Ken's colt. In spite of his
father's displeasure Ken wants that colt
and no other.
Now continue with the story.
CHAPTER IX
They dined in town with the Bart-
letts; and by the time they got back
to the ranch a number of visitors
were there; and from then on the
pleasant sociabilities of Sunday aft-
ernoon kept the place olive with cars
coming and going trays of bottles
and glosses being carried in and
out and much talk and laughter.
Later in the afternoon McLaugh-
lin stuck a tin can on the tip of one
of the branches of a pine tree on
the Hill opposite and the officers
took their revolvers and practiced
target shooting standing on the ter-
race. Then Mrs. Grubb and Mrs. Gil-
flllan said they wanted to rido out
and see the brood mares so they all
crowded into two automobiles and
McLaughlin led the way.
When they found the brood mares
they stopped some distance off and
got out and McLaughlin promised
that Banner would come out to meet
them and do the honors.
"How do you know he will?" asked
Mrs. Gilfillan.
"He always does."
The mares stopped grazing and
stood alert curious and ready to
run. Banner was amonest them.
His. head topped them all and
even from a distance the men and
women watching could feel the pene-
tration of his eye.
Suddenly the big stallion moved
towards them ears pricked inquir-
ing eyes wide and fearless and be-
gan to trot his legs alternating in
high free curving steps his mane
streaming his tail up.
"Flying all his flags!" cried Nell.
A roar and cheer burst from the
officers as the stallion without
breaking Ws trot increased his pace
and came down the wind to them
like a bugle call.
Banner halted ten yards off and
stood looking the group over. His
golden coat blazed in the sunshine.
"What an intelligent face!" ex-
claimed the Colonel. McLaughlin
still in his gray suit and rakish hat
went forward to the stud apologiz-
ing gravely for not having brought a
bucket of oats in the car.
Lying in bed that night Ken re-
membered the way Banner had
looked. Banner the Sire of Flicka
Flicka was the samp tno enmn v...-.
nished gold the same beauty the
same flags flying Oh mine . . .
my colt . . . my own . . . my very
own . . .
He wondered when his father
would bring her in again.
He had been wondering that every
day when Gus put his round pink
face in at the kitchen door and said
"What's today Boss?" But his fa-
ther had planned other work. Mead-
ows to be taken care of water to
be turned out of one ditch and into
the other. Endless hours of work
on the three-year-olds that must be
ready to ship in just a few days now.
A new cattle guard being built at
one of the railroad gates.
But next morning when Gus said
"What's today Boss?" McLaughlin
gave the order for the day's work
and then said "And I think" and
paused.
Ken looked down to hide his ex-
citement; he clenched his fists un-
der the table.
McLaughlin went on "Tomorrow
we'll get the yearlings in again Gus
and cut out Ken's Ally. I want to
do that before Ross leaves. We may
need his help."
Tomorrow . . .
When Ken opened his eyes next
morninc and looked nut hu em th?.
the house was wrapped in fog. There
had been no rain at all since the
day a week ago when the wind had
torn the "sprinkling system" to
pieces and blown all the tattered
clouds away. That was the day he
had found Flicka. And it had been
terribly hot since then. They hod
hardly been able to stand the sun
out on the terrace. They had gone
swimming in the pool every day.
un xne nins tne gross was turning
to soft tan.
Now there were clouds and they
had closed down. After a severe
hot spell there often came a heavy
fog or hail or even snow.
Standing at the window Ken could
hardly see the pines on the Hill oppo-
site. He wondered if his father would
go after the yearlings in such a fog
as this they wouldn't be able to see
them but at hreakfnRt MrT.niinWIn
said there would be no change of
plans. It was just a big cloud that
hod settled down over the ranch it
would lift and fall perhaps up on
Saddle Back It would bo clear.
They mounted and rode out.
The fog lay in the folds of the
faUla. Here and there a bare sum-
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mit was in sunshine then a little
farther on came a smother of cot-
tony white that soaked the four rid-
ers to the skin and hung rows of
moonstones on the whiskers of the
horses.
It was hard to keep track of each
other Suddenly Ken was lost the
others had vanished. He reined in
Shorty and sat listening. The clouds
and mist rolled around him. He
felt as if he were alone in the world.
A bluebird color of the deep blue
wild delphinium that dots the plains
became interested in him and per-
ched on a bush near by; and as
he started Shorty forward again the
bluebird followed along hopping
from bush to bush.
The boy rode slowly not knowing
in which direction to go. Then
hearing shouts he touched heels to
Shorty and cantered and suddenly
came out of the fog and saw his
father and Tim and Ross.
"There they are!" said McLaugh-
lin pointing down over the curve of
the hill. They rode forward and
Ken could see the yearlings stand-
ing bunched at the bottom looking
up wondering who was coming.
Then a huge coil of fog swirled over
them and they were lost to sight
again.
McLaughlin told them to circle
around spread out fan-wise on the
far side of the colts and then gently
bear down on them so they would
Banner
start towards the ranch. If the colts
once got running in this fog he
said there'd be no chance of catch-
ing them.
The plan worked well; the year-
lings were not so frisky as usual
and allowed themselves to be driven
in the right direction. It was only
when they were on the County Road
and near the gate where Howard
was watching that Ken whose eyes
had been scanning the bunch as
they appeared and disappeared in
the fog realized tnat Flicka was
missing.
McLaughlin noticed it at the same
moment and as Ken rode toward
his father McLaughlin turned to
him and said "She's not in the
bunch."
They sat in silence a few mo-
ments while McLaughlin planned
the next step. The yearlings dispir-
ited by the fog nibbled languidly at
the grass by the roadside. McLaugh-
lin looked at the Saddle Back and
Ken looked too the passionate de
sire m nis neart reaching out to
pierce the fog and the hillside and
see where Flicka had hidden her-
self away.
"Well we'll drive the yearlincs
back up" said Rob finally. "No
chance of finding her alone. If they
happen to pass anywhere near her
she's likely to join them."
They drove the yearlings back.
Once over the first hill the colts got
running and soon were out of sight.
The fog closed down again so that
Ken pulled up unable to see where
he was going unable to see his fa-
ther or Ross or Tim.
He sat listening astonished that
the sound of their hoofs had been
wiped out so completely. Again he
seemed alone in the world.
The fog lifted in front of him and
showed him that he stood at the
brink of a sharp drop almost a prec-
ipice though not very deep. It led
down into a semi-circular pocket
on the hillside which was fed by a
spring; there was a clump of young
cottonwoods and a great bank of
clover dotted with small yellow blos-
soms. In the midst of the clover stood
Flicka quietly feasting. She had
seen him before he saw her and
was watching him her head up
clover sticking out of both sides of
her mouth her Jaws going busily.
At sight of her Ken was incapa-
ujb iu euner mougnt or action.
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fog he heard his father's low voice
"Don't move"
"How'd she get in there?" said
Tim.
She scrambled down this bank.
And she could scramble up again if
we weren't here. I think we've got
her" said McLaughlin.
"Other side of that pocket the
ground drops twenty feet sheer"
said Tim. "She can't go down
there."
Flicka had stopped chewing.
There wdre still stalks of clover
sticking out between her jaws but
her head was up and her ears
pricked listening and there was a
tautness and tension in her whole
body.
Ken found himself trembling too.
"How're you going to catch her
Dad?" he asked in a low voice.
"I kin snog her from here" said
Ross and in the same breath Mc-
Laughlin answered "Ross con rope
her. Might as well rope her here as
in the corral. We'll spread out In a
semi-circle above this bank. She
can't get up past us and she can't
get down."
They took their positions and Ros3
lifted his rope off the horn of his
saddle.
Ahead of them far down below
the pocket the yearlings were run-
ning. A whinny or two drifted up
and the sound of their hoofs muf-
fled by the fog.
Flicka heard them too. Suddenly
she was aware of danger. She
leaped out of the clover to the edge
of the precipice which fell away
down the mountainside toward
where the yearlings were running.
But it was too steep and too high.
She came straight up on her hind
legs wnn a neigh of terror and
whirled back toward the bank down
which she .had slid to reach the
pocket. But on the crest of it loom-
ing uncannily in the fog were four
black figures she screamed and
ran around the base of the bank.
Ken heard Ross' rope sing. It
snaked out just as Flicka dove into
the bank of clover. Stumbling she
went down and for a moment was
lost to view.
"Goldarn " said Ross hauling
in his rope while Flicka floundered
up and again circled her small pris-
on hurling herself at every point
only to realize that there was no
way out.
She stood over the precipice
poised in despair and frantic long-
ing. There drifted up the sound of
me cons running below. Flicka
trembled and strained over the
brink a perfect target for Ross
and he whirled his lariat again. It
made a vicious whine.
Flicka went down like a diver.
She hit the ground with her legs
folded under her then rolled and
bounced the rest of the way. It
was exactly like the bronco that
had climbed over the side of the
irucK and rolled down the forty-
foot bank; and in silence the four
watchers sat in their saddles wait-
ing to see what would happen when
she hit bottom Ken already think-
ing of the Winchester and the way
the crack of it had echoed back
from the hills.
Flicka lit it seemed on four steel
springs that tossed her up and sent
her flying down the mountainside-
perfection of speed and power and
action. A hot sweat bathed Ken
from head to foot and he began to
laugh half choking
The wind roared down and swept
up the fog and it went bounding
away over the hills leaving trailing
streamers of white in the gullies
and coverlets of cotton around the
bushes. Wav belnw. thpv m! oo
Flicka galloping toward the year-
lings. In a moment she joined them
and then there was just a many
colored blur of moving shapes with
a fierce sun blazing down striking
sparks of light off their glossy coats.
"Get going!" shouted McLaugh-
lin. "Get around behind them.
They're on the run now and it's
cleared keeD them running nnri ma
may get them all in together be-
fore they stop. Tim you take the
short way back to the gate and help
Howard turn them and get them
inrougn.
Tim shot off toward the County
Road and the other three riders gal-
loped down and around the moun-
tain until they were at the bock of
the band of yearlings. Shouting and
yelling and spurring their mounts
they kept the colts running circling
them around toward the ranch un-
til they had them on the County
Road.
Way ahead Ken could see Tim
and Howard at the gate blocking
um roau. ine yearnngs were bear-
ing down on them. Now McLaugh-
lin slowed up and began to call
"Whoa whoa" and the nnn in
creased. Often enough the year-
lings had swept down that road and
through the gate and down to the
corrals. It was the pathway to oats
and hay and shelter from winter
storms would they take it now?
Flicka was with them right in the
middle if they went would she go
too?
It was all over almost before Ken
could draw a breath. The yearlings
turned at the gate swept through
went down to the corrals on a dead
run and through the gates that Gua
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