. Mary Ware in Texas . a salary would lift them. CHAPTER IX AT THE BARNABY RANCH THREE alert and expectant little figures sat ina row on the steps of the gray cottage, and watchedfor Marys coming the next afternoon. Brud, saw-ing his hatchet blade up and down on the edge ofthe step below him, made deep notches in the paintwhile he waited. Little Sister, fuming with im-patience, sat with one arm around the young hunt-ing dog which squatted beside her, and made direthreats as to her conduct, in case the new teachershould refuse to let him go with them. He was a brown English pointer, with a whit
. Mary Ware in Texas . a salary would lift them. CHAPTER IX AT THE BARNABY RANCH THREE alert and expectant little figures sat ina row on the steps of the gray cottage, and watchedfor Marys coming the next afternoon. Brud, saw-ing his hatchet blade up and down on the edge ofthe step below him, made deep notches in the paintwhile he waited. Little Sister, fuming with im-patience, sat with one arm around the young hunt-ing dog which squatted beside her, and made direthreats as to her conduct, in case the new teachershould refuse to let him go with them. He was a brown English pointer, with a whitevest, and the silver plate on his collar bore thename by which he was registered among the aris-tocracy of dogs. The name was Uncle always laughed when they read that onhis collar, but as Brud usually began to explainabout that time that he was a peggydreed dog,his sister thought that they were laughing at theway he pronounced pedigreed. Therefore, shewould gravely correct him and add the information. L
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