"Yes," Parker replied, "we've got the beef critters in I guessthey're in the upland pasture.

The Quarter Circle KT will send a horse into the big race that will beat that Thunderbolt critter of yours just three times as bad as he set old Quicksilver backand we'll give you action on any amount of money, cattle or anything else you want to name!

Fairies are tiny little critters with wings like those on one of our dragonflies.

Seems Shalliday's woman had jest come in a-visitin' from over on Big Smoky, and she turned out to be the laziest, no-accountest critter on the Unakas.

"We're a nice set ter talk erbout dewin' somethin'a passel o' poor ole critters like us!"

"Scotty looked and there was all kinds of wreckage, from a dead beef critter to a wheel barrow.

"Steer for steer, cow for cow, hoof for hoofI'll put Quarter Circle KT critters against every brute you own that th' Ramblin' Kid lands his horse tinder the wire ahead of Thunderbolt!" Dorsey paled, then a purple-red of fury spread over his neck and face, and with an oath he cried: "I'll call you!" Bills of sale were drawn and turned over to Judge Ivory, to be delivered, after the race, to the winner.

That's why I've come to cowhide the critter within an inch o' his life!"

" "He may listen to reason" "Reason?why, man, what more reason could he want,with that splendid young critter before him, throwing back her head, and flashing her big, shiny eyes, and lifting her red lips over them little white teethreason enough for Brother Brighamor for other people I could name!"

the critter for ye!" I did buy at last, for life had become a burden.

"'Oh, I ain't so much,' says Aggy, 'although I'm as good a man to-day as ever I was in my lifebut I have a little friend here who can rope, down, and ride that critter from here to the brick-front in five minutes by the watch; and if you've got a twenty-five dollar bill in your pocket, or its equivalent in dust, you can observe the experiment.'

I had a notion of suthin' goin' on, 'n' left the critters out thar, with the rancheros, 'n' stole in.