tribe could muster. Shoulder to shoul- 

 der, with their big ears alert, they picked 

 their way along, and under cover of the 

 deepening twilight advanced to exam- 

 ine the dwelling of the white man. 



I watched them with silent breath. 

 They were not ten yards away. Then 

 they saw me and, wheeling around, 

 stopped, the boldest a little in advance 

 of her companion, with the right fore- 

 foot raised for action. I made no move. 

 The graceful things eyed me suspi- 

 ciously for several seconds and then 

 advanced a little in a one-sided fashion. 



A laugh from Yeddar's office, across 

 the creek, where Uncle John and Dave 

 were having a quiet game of pinochle, 

 caused a short retreat up the road. 

 About fifty yards away, they stopped, 

 and there, in the twilight, in that wild 

 glen, they put themselves through a 



