Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1924-01-11

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five hundred and fifty dollars?" he
pleaded.
With the bid Candy raised his hat
and ran his fingers through his hair
casually and the veterinary stopped
bidding.
"Done!" cried the auctioneer, sold
to Mr.-the name, please-ah, Mac
pherson, for six hundred dollars A
bargain!"
Between relief and joy Wallie was
speeches., while Candy congratulate
ed him and the crowd bestowed upon
him glances of either derision or
commiseration, according to the ma
ture of the individual
Helene Spenceley looked from one
of the horses to the other. She saw
the dilated pupils, the abnormally
full forehead, the few coarse hairs
growing just above the eyelid, and
they told her what she had suspect
ed.
II am sorry I did not know it was
you who was bidding on these hors-
es," she said, turning to Wallie.
Did you want them, Miss Spence
ley? I am sorry"
want them? You couldn't give
them to me- They are locoed!"
"Locoed!" He could only stare at
her, hoping never again to feel such
dismay as filled him at that mo-
ment
Candy came forward to greet her,
with his hand out. She ignored it
and said Indignantly:
Il should have spoiled this sale for
you, Mr.. Candy, if l had seen who
was bidding on these locoed horses"
Though Candy flushed, he shrugged
shoulder and replied callously:
1--WE all had to get our eyeteeth
cut when we came to the country"
The Best Pulling Team in the State
Leading the COW, and aided by
"Tex" McGonnigle, who boasted that
be had a heart as big as the country
he lived in and was willing to prove
it by helping him with the locoed
horses, Wallie made fair progress as
far as the gate in the last wire fence,
where "Tex" had to leave him.
"'Tain't fur now" said that per-
son, passing over the rope with a
knot in the end with which he had
belabored the horses he had driven
ahead of him. "Mog along Study
and you'd ought to make 1t by sun
down.
Il think I'll lead EN-" wallie re-
marked.
"Locoed horses won't lead-you've
got to drive EN-"
3 Nevertheless, on the chance that
TEX" might not know everything,
Wallie tried it after his helper had
galloped in another direction.
"The best pulling team in the
stated" the auctioneer had declared,
and truthfully. Wallie had notion
they could have moved the Capitol
building If they had laid back on 1t
as they did on their halters when he
tried to lead them.
There was nothing for it but to tie
their heads together and drive them
as TEX" had done, but with even
less success. They missed either
ticks" voluble and spicy encour.
agement or the experienced hand
which laid on the rope end, but the
chief difficulty seemed to be that
they were of different minds as to
the direction which they should take,
and since the cow was of still an
other, Wallie was confronted with
difficult situation.
Dragging the wild-eyed Jersey,
which had developed an incredible
obstinancy with the cessation Of
Ticks" Comanche yells behind her,
Wallie applied the rope he had in.
herited, with the best imitation he
could give of the performance, but
futilely.
The COW and the horses pulling in
opposite directions went around and
around in a circle until the trampled
earth looked as If it had been the
site of cider-press or a circus.
After they had milled for twenty
minutes without advancing a step
Wallie lost patience.
Damn it," he cried, finally, in his
evaporation.
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