The Canon City record with which is consolidated the Canon City cannon., 1915-04-08

,ountry. Pays 40 cents . pound for
the coffee he drinks and let's the hired
man drink it. too"
wen. don't lose your breath. Is he
dead?r
Dead? Not much. He was down
in the corn with me huh hour this
afternoon. Guess what he wantedy'
PA, Jim Faraday is forty-five years
old"
"Yes."
Hes awidower with threo chill
dren." !
"Yes--three.:
4 He's st.eakin' around after cur les-
sic"
There is no sneakin' about It. He
wants her for wife. and can give
her forty times as good home as any
one else: Lets set In and bring it
about"
David Brandon. there win be no
settin' in!" solemnly warned the wife.
Haven't you got sense enough to un-
derstand that when you tie gal OF
nineteen to a man old enough TO be
her father that you are goin' to spiie
her life Where's the loye--the ro-
mance?s
But Jim is rlch.-
That doesn't count for shucks."
IAN right Let her live and die an
old maid. then
Two other widowers came, and one
got as far as to ask Jessie II she dotted
on chicken potpie. but the father
didn't interfere again until late fall
Then he suddenly asked:
What do You 'spose Jessie is walt
in fcr?"
For the first snowfall" was the
answer.
And the next week Il came. It was
soft and half an inch deep. and every
thing that moved in the fields Ielt a
clear trail. 1t was so with the fox
who visited the henhouse during the
night and carried away with him a
plump puilet Jessie saw his plain
trail as she went out to feed the hens
In the mornings. and after breakfast.
without saying word TO any one. she
got ready 20 follow the trail. carrying
a spade on her shoulder. She was
going TO run that fox to his hole and
dig him out and put an end TO him
Had the girl asked her father. her
mother-had ehe a brother to ark
they would have told her something
about sly Reynard that she did not
know. farmers daughter though she
was.
into the woods. she followed that plain
trail. and abe uttered q shout ns II led
her at last TO burrow in hill She
had run the thief to earth. ans now
to dig him out She had worked for
half an hour. when there was . merry
laugh close at her elbow.
"Why-why-i~ she stammered In
confusion as she looked mp and saw
young man whose faee beamed with
mirth.
Il beg Dardon.r be said. -but you
are trying 70 dig out The sox whose
trails leads here
Y-yes."
Come to the top OF the hill ana
Iook down there. Do you 80 that
trail leading awayf"
''It's another fox
It's the same one you tracked to
this burrow. Master Raynard has two
entrances and two exits to his bur-
row As soon as you began digging
he skipped out"
You don't live in this country. and
how should you know2" asked Jessie.
rather denantly.
-Oh. might have read q work or
two on natural history
but know my father VIII say
I'VE Will ask him. You are Miss
Brandon. I believe. Ny name IL Ar
thur Stewart am on the way to SEQ
your father for my cousin. AIr. Wake
field. Permit me. please"
And he shouldered the spade and
walked along beside her. and their
talk was OF trails hnd foxes. but
Queeriy enough when the house was
reached the question in dispute was
not submitted for declsion. In fact. Il
was net thought Of again for months.
and II was Jessie's mother who said
to the father:
Jest lei girl alone. pa. and she'll
find a man to love and one to love her,
even II she has to have the help Of an
old red foxl Don't jump outer your
boots when I tell you that Jcssie Is
engagedl'
Copyright. i9ii by the Mcclure Newupa-
per syndieato.)