Injun and Whitey to the Rescue

he and his pal, "Injun," had had the adventures incidental to the finding of the gold in the mountains, there had been nothing doing. S

and Whitey. Not that John was impatient with his pupils. He was too patient, if anything, his own boyhood not being so far behind him that he had forgotten that

ward him across the prairie. He watched it with the interest one might have in a ship at sea; as one watche

emed to Injun to be the real thing. It had been hard to convince him that they were not proper for everyday wear, but when he was half convinced of this fact, he had done the next

at is?" asked Whitey,

un answere

to wonder at Injun's keenness of sight, was inclined

njun's education had not as yet sunk

oys watched, sure enough, began to resolve itself into the shape of a dog. Here at last was something happening t

His head was very large for his size, his jaw undershot, his mouth enormous, and his lower lip drooped carelessly over a couple of fangs on each side. Under small ears his eyes popped almost out of his head, and his snub

ething as near surprise as he ever allowed

lldog!" exclaimed Whitey, who had s

jun maintained solemnly.

appearance lies the deepest of dog love for a master-and that's a pretty deep love-and that no other "friend of man" holds gentler, kinder feeling for the human race than this queerly shaped animal. And this in spite of the

was held, the widespread legs to secure a firm ground hold; in short, that he was looking at an animal built for conflict, which had th

ndly, and usually misunderstood, and he proceeded to let Inju

o too close," replie

s cave-like mouth, allowing a few inches of tongue to loll out,

thirsty," said Whitey, and

alm face, and his steady, dark eyes. This descendant of thousands of fighting men regarded that descendant of thousands of

the Bar O, Charlie Bassett, Buck Higgins, and Shorty Palmer, all the cowpunchers who happened

after favoring him with a grateful glance

t' take him up to Moose Lake. Looks like

k'n he come fro

un

agon, an' got lost," Buck H

a dog like that, an' if they did, what would he be doin' fo

the railway twenty-two, and nothing there but a water tank. There was some discussion regarding the matter which ended in a deadlock. It was certain th

and after that he went with the men and boys to the ranch house, where, with an apologetic leer, and a wiggle of his t

re of an event at the Bar O. Bill, the foreman, and all the punchers were ready to neglect work for a considerable time and t

t might have been of being tied to the handle of a trunk in an overland limited baggage car; of the train's stopping

sneaking around the train for the odd bits of food that were sometimes left in its wake. As the pungent scent of this beast reached the bulldog's snub nose, the leash that held him t

not by scent. With his head held as high as his short neck would allow he dashed on. The coyote didn't bother very much. After getting a good start he doubled on

in the morning he started off again, thinking he was going toward the train and his sorrowful master, really going in the opposite direction. But there was one thing that man hadn't ta

t Bill Jordan, the punchers, and the boys didn't,

er'll show up, so he's

k Higgins maintained

matter of his name came next in importance. Of course he had one, and he was awakened, and asked to respond to as many dog name

decided, and he ventured on "Alphonse"

y got t' give him a na

right. "Oughta be somep'n' 'propriate," said Bill Jor

ted Buck. "In the bullrushe

"he ought to have a fi

't Eng

ling

o l

y turned in despair to Injun, who had stood solemnly by. "H

bly felt that he ought to keep awake, for he sat on the ver

runted. "Si

ried all t

he veranda and again fell asleep, and Whitey told Injun that the dog's coming p