A ROMANCE OF DOUBLE MOUNTAIN
but how trew!' as Brother White says exhortin'."
He told Mis' Higginson and Amandy all about everything on his ranch over his side of the country, and said how Seth Smith was supposed to be dead on account of horse-stealing. But how he died he wouldn't say. And he further said that the feed on the ranges wasn't what it had been, and that he hated sheep, and that life was a burden, and his wife's pie hideous (for he loved good pie), and he then went into politics, and said what he thought of McKinley and Queen Victoria and the Germans and the Mexicans and all the world.
But all the time his very fertile imagination was working on the subject of Amandy and the large cowboy. His talk presently followed his mind.
"You ain't merried yet, Amandy?" he said, with a nervous laugh.
"I ain't a-thinkin' o' merriage," returned Amandy.
"’Pears to me you should think of it," said her uncle; "there's sad dangers in this world
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