The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1917-02-10
AMICABlY SETTLED
BY II. A. sLATTENoREN.

which caused him to hesitate and look
more carefully. After a moment, he
went back into the house and came
out with field glass. Levellng this
at the thing that had interested him.
he saw something that made him
swear, as he lowered the glass.
"Audry," he shouted.
| Hello" came voice from the shade
Of the shack.
| "McLaughlin's cattle have broken in
to the oats again. I'm going over to
give him piece Of my mind"
In few minutes Ruffy was astride
his pony, raising clouds of white al
kali dust, galloping in the direction Of
McIaughlin's ranch.
i Mclaughlin was busy mending q
saddle when Ruffy rode up to him and
shouted somewhat angry, "Hello.
there"
SLOW are you. Hank? Glad to see
you"
Say, your cattle have broken into
my oat field again."
| by heck Is that so2" said Nc
Laughlin In surprise as he arose.
| "Yes, that's so. and you'd better get
them out of there"
Soon several of McLaughlin's men
were driving out the cattle and repair
ing the fence.
On the following afternoon Nc
Laughlin noticed that some cattle were
In his wheatfield. Hastily procuring
his fieldglass, he saw that the cattle
belonged to Ruffy.
"Aha, tit for tat" he thought as he
saddled his pony, mounted and rode
away toward Ruffy's ranch.
When he reached Ruffy's place he
found the latter lounging in his chair.
smoking and reading paper.
"Hello, Mclaughlin. What's the
trouble?"
"Hello, Hank. Nothing much, ex-
cept that your cattle are sampling my
wheat"
"The deuce they>are. Darned crit
tiers anyway. Say. Audry! Audry y
'"Coming up. What you want?"
Hurry up and get my mavericks out
of McLaughln's grain. Be sure to fix
the fence for good"
II got you"
"How about some Sunpybrook p
asked Rufry.
"No. don't care for any. Thanks
nevertheless. We must keep the cat
. tie out of the grain If we want to d.
Sny threshing this fall"
"You are right" agreed Ruffy. 9Th,
next tine your cattle break into IN.
patch of choice Silver King oats II
ride over and shoot you up"
1.-THE same here!" Mclaughlin
shouted as his horse galloped away.
Audry was desperately in love wit
Alga Mclaughlin, so much so, indeed
that he had saved all his money dur
ing the last two years and bought al
automobile because she was very fon
of motoring. Almost every evenin
they took spin together over tn
plains.
A few days after Mclaughlin ha
visited Ruffy in regard to the cattle, h
noticed with chagrin and anger tina
Ruffy's cattle had again broken int
his wheat field. Very angry, he got hi
rifle, jumped onto his already saddle
pony and rode away.
At about the same time Hank RUIZ
became aware Of the fact that No
. Laughlin's cattle had again strayed In
to his patch Of choice Silver King oats
He swore lengthily. After this psychi
relief he remembered his threat, an
at once decided to put 1t into effect.
About half way between the ranc
houses Mclaughlin and Ruffy met.
Ruffy shouted: do you remembe
what said I'd do If your cattle got n
to my oats againT
II "Yep, and do you recall what ais
said?"
/ "Get off your horse. can't shoe
you In cold blood"
II "That's what say. I'm quite hand
I with my fists"
III Consequently the two slid from the
steeds, slung their rifles over the SAT
l die horns and pulled Off their QUITE
| clothing Then after n few minute
| Of sparring and invective they close
| In on each other and engaged In rel
| ular rough-and-tumble fight. This las
ed for about five minutes.
Too tired to fight longer, they n
treated to their horses and graspe
their rifles. At this juncture an aut'
mobile emerged from turn In tn
road and sped toward them, so befol
the enraged ranchers could shoot I
each other Alga and Audry had drive
their machine between them.
II Audry spoke: "You big men are &c
ing like a couple Of kids. It's II
worst I've ever heard Of. Don't yC
think 1t Is ridiculous, comics
scream?" he asked Alga, who had b
gun to litter. She nodded and laughe
outright, and he joined In until the
were both convulsed with laughte
= Ruffy and Mclaughlin glowered
, each other sheepishly until their chi
= dren quicted down.
Ill Then Audry took Alga by the har
| and said, "She has promised to NAL
| me the happiest man in the world. Yt
| know what that means" Forthwi
| he crushed her In his embrace al
1 rtasosl her blushinC cheeks