acts like a business man i could see that just by at his place before i seen him he took about fifteen seconds to size me up can you says he sure thing i told m know horses i was in a box stall says i an just then � you remember that four horse load of machinery that come in after me � just then it drove up how about four horses he asks casual like eight to home i can drive m to a a machine or a merry go round jump up an take them lines then he says quick an sharp not seconds see that shed go round the barn to the right an back in for an right here i tell you it was some he was i could see by the tracks the d all ben goin around the bam to the left what he was was too close work for comfort � a double turn like an s between a comer of a an around the corner of the barn to the last swing an to eat into the little room there was there was piles of just thrown the barn an not hauled away yet but i wasn t on the driver gave me the lines an i could see he was sure i d make a mess of it i bet he couldn t a done it himself i never let on an away we went me not even the horses � but say if you d seen me throw them leaders clean to the top of the till the nigh horse was the side of the bam to make it an the off hind was the by ic the valley of the moon comer post of the to miss by six inches it was the only way an them horses was sure the leaders back an dam near sat down on their when i threw the back into the an on the an stopped on the very precise spot do says that was good work aw says indifferent as hell something real hard he smiles an understands you done that well he says an i m particular about who handles my horses the road ain t no place for you you must be a good man gone wrong just the same you can with my horses in to morrow which shows how wise he wasn t i hadn t showed i could when saxon had served the beans and the coffee she stood still a moment and surveyed the spread meal on the blankets � the of sugar the milk tin the beef the and the of fresh french bread and the steaming plates of beans and of coffee what a difference from last night saxon exclaimed clapping her hands it s like an adventure out of a book oh that boy i went fishing with think of that beautiful table and that beautiful house last night and then look at this why we could have lived a thousand years on end in and never met a woman like mrs nor dreamed a house like hers existed and just to think we ve only just started worked for three days and while that he was doing very well he freely admitted that there was more in than he had thought saxon experienced quiet satisfaction when she learned he was enjoying it i never thought i d like � much he observed but it s fine it s good for the leg muscles too they by ic the valley of the moon don t get exercise enough in if ever i trained for another fight you bet i d take a at an you know the ground has a regular good smell to it a over an over it s good enough to eat that smell an it just goes on up an over fresh an thick an good all day long an the horses are joe they know their business as well as a man that s one thing ain t got a horse on the place the last day worked the sky clouded over the air grew damp a strong wind began to blow from the and all the signs were present of the first winter rain came back in the evening with a small roll of old canvas he had borrowed which he proceeded to arrange over their bed on a so as to shed rain several times he complained about the little finger of his left hand it had been him all day he told saxon for several days slightly in fact and it was as tender as a boil � most likely a but he had been unable to it he went ahead with storm preparations the b d on old boards which he from a bam falling to decay on the opposite bank of the creek upon the boards he heaped dry leaves for a he concluded by the canvas with additional of odd pieces of rope and wire when the first of rain arrived saxon was delighted betrayed little interest his finger was too much he said neither he nor saxon could make anything of it and both at the idea of a it might be a run around saxon what s that i don t know i remember mrs had one once but i was too small it was the little finger too she it i think and i remember she dressed it with some kind of it got awful bad and finished by her losing the nail after that it got well quick and a ed by the valley of the moon new nail grew out suppose make a hot bread for yours declined being of the opinion that it would be better in the morning saxon was troubled and as she she knew that he was lying wide awake a few minutes afterward roused by a heavy blast of wind and 