IV. VENDETTA

V. ONE ARROWHEAD DAY

VI. THE PORCH WREN

VII. CHANGE OF VENUS

VIII. CAN HAPPEN!

IX. THE TAKER-UP

X. AS TO HERMAN WAGNER

XI. CURLS





I

MA PETTENGILL AND THE ANIMAL KINGDOM


From the Arrowhead corrals I strolled up the poplar-bordered lane that
leads past the bunk house to the castle of the ranch's chatelaine. It
was a still Sunday afternoon--the placid interlude, on a day of rest,
between the chores of the morning and those of evening. But the calm was
for the ear alone. To the eye certain activities, silent but swift, were