the side, but with frankness and good nature.
This trick did not suggest duplicity or secre-
tiveness, but merely long habit, as with the
horse.

He had brought a tintype of himself and
Rudolph for Antonia's collection, and sev-
eral paper bags of candy for the children. He
looked a little disappointed when his wife
showed him a big box of candy I had got in
Denver -- she hadn't let the children touch
it the night before. He put his candy away
in the cupboard, "for when she rains," and
glanced at the box, chuckling. "I guess you
must have hear about how my family ain't
so small," he said.

Cuzak sat down behind the stove and
watched his women-folk and the little chil-
dren with equal amusement. He thought they
were nice, and he thought they were funny,
evidently. He had been off dancing with the
girls and forgetting that he was an old fellow,
and now his family rather surprised him; he
seemed to think it a joke that all these chil-
dren should belong to him. As the younger
ones slipped up to him in his retreat, he kept
taking things out of his pockets; penny dolls,
a wooden clown, a balloon pig that was in-

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