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Title: Stories of the Foot-hills

Author: Margaret Collier Graham

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STORIES OF THE FOOT-HILLS

BY MARGARET COLLIER GRAHAM

[Illustration]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY

The Riverside Press, Cambridge

1895

Copyright, 1895,

BY MARGARET COLLIER GRAHAM.

_All rights reserved._

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._

Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE WITHROW WATER RIGHT 1

ALEX RANDALL'S CONVERSION 114

IDY 134

THE COMPLICITY OF ENOCH EMBODY 189

EM 212

COLONEL BOB JARVIS 231

BRICE 245

STORIES OF THE FOOT-HILLS.

THE WITHROW WATER RIGHT.

I.

Lysander Sproul, driving his dun-colored mules leisurely toward the
mesa, looked back now and then at the winery which crowned its low hill
like a bit of fortification.

"If I'd really had any idee o' gettin' ahead o' him," he reflected, "or
circumventin' him an inch, I reckon I'd been more civil; it's no more 'n
fair to be civil to a man when you're gettin' the best of 'im; but I
hain't. I don't s'pose Indian Pete's yaller dog, standin' ahead there in
the road ready to bark at my team like mad, has any idee of eatin' a
mule, much less two, but all the same it's a satisfaction to him to be
sassy; an' seein' he's limited in his means of entertainin' hisself, I
don't begrudge him. And the Colonel don't begr