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and one hand upon my rifle and I do not 

 think that I ever slept better." 



" What friends he and Little Bighead 

 were ! " put in Thomas. " How they would 

 frisk and caper together I Faithless old 

 Buck, what a scapegrace he turned out to 

 be." 



" No," said Mr. Anderson, " not faithless, 

 but faithful. He was born in the great 

 herd and it was as inevitable that he would 

 return to it as that the spring which bub- 

 bles from the hillside should return to the 

 sea whence it came." 



