[Frontispiece: The Cow Puncher]
The Cow Puncher
By
ROBERT J. C. STEAD
Author of "The Homesteaders," "Kitchener and Other Poems," "The BailJumper," "Songs of the Prairie," "Prairie Born," "The Empire Builders,"etc.
TORONTO
THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY
LIMITED
Copyright Canada, 1918
THE MUSSON BOOK CO., LIMITED
Publishers ———— TORONTO
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
The Cow Puncher . . . . . . Frontispiece
These long rides afforded her many side-lights on the remarkable natureof her escort.
"You aren't talking to-day … what's wrong?"
"There is only one answer, Dave. Because I love you."
THE COW PUNCHER
CHAPTER ONE
The shadows of the spruce trees fell north-eastward, pointing long,cool fingers across belts of undulating prairie, or leaning lazilyagainst the brown foothills. Like an incandescent globe the afternoonsun hung in the bowl of a cloudless heaven, fi
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