ain home, where he takes great interest
in an active little boy, Morgan de Spain, who waits for his Uncle
Duke's coming, and digs into his pockets for rattles captured along
the trail from recent huge rattlesnakes. When his uncle happens to
kill a big one--one with twelve or thirteen rings and a button--Morgan
uses it to scare his younger sister, Nan. And Duke, secretly
rejoicing at his bravado, but scolding sharply, helps him adjust the
old ammunition-belt dragged from the attic, and cuts fresh gashes in
it to make it fit the childish waist. His mother doesn't like to see
her son in warlike equipment, ambushing little Nan in the way Bob
Scott says the Indians used to do. She threatens periodically to burn
the belt up and throw the old rifles out of the house. But when she
sees her uncle and her husband watching the boy and laughing at the
parade together, she relents. It is only children, after all, that
keep the world young.

NOVELS OF FRONTIER LIFE BY

WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE

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MAVERICKS.

A tale of the western frontier, where the "rustler," whose depredations
are so keenly resented by the early settlers of the range, abounds.
One of the sweetest love stories ever told.

A TEXAS RANGER.

How a member of the most dauntless border police force carried law
into the mesquit, saved the life of an innocent man after a series of
thrilling adventures, followed a fugitive to Wyoming, and then passed
through deadly peril to ultimate happiness.

WYOMING.

In this vivid story of the outdoor West the author has captured the
breezy charm of "cattleland," and brings out the turbid life of the
frontier with all its engaging dash and vigor.

RIDGWAY OF MONTANA.

The scene is laid in the mining centers of Montana, where politics and
mining industries are the religion of the country. The political
contest, the love scene, and the fine character drawing give this
story great strength and charm.

BUCKY O'CONNOR.

Every chapter teems with wholesome, stirring adventures, replete with
the dashing spirit of the border, told with dramatic dash and
absorbing fascination of style and plot.

CROOKED TRAILS AND STRAIGHT.

A story of Arizona; of swift-riding men and daring outlaws; of a
bitter feud between cattle-men and sheep-herders. The heroine is a
most unusual woman and her love story reaches a culmination