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and happy, and she would sit there and watch 

 them and silently love them till it was time to 

 go home, or until some sign of distant danger 

 showed. Then, with a low growl, she gave the 

 signal, and all disappeared from sight in a 

 twinkling, after which she would set off to 

 meet and turn the danger, or go on a fresh 

 hunt for food. 



IX 



Wolver Jake had several plans for making a 

 fortune, but each in turn was abandoned as soon 

 as he found that it meant work. At one time 

 or other most men of this kind see the chance 

 of their lives in a poultry-farm. They cherish 

 the idea that somehow the poultry do all the 

 work. And without troubling himself about 

 the details, Jake devoted an unexpected wind- 



sj.M» n ^ to ^ ie P urcnase °f a d° zen Turkeys for his 



¥%t'$f latest scheme. The Turkeys were duly housed 



in one end of Jake's shanty, so as to be well 

 guarded, and for a couple of days were the 

 object of absorbing interest, and had the best 

 of care— too much, really. But Jake's ardor 

 waned about the third day ; then the recurrent 



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