After several visits into the inner sanctuary of the sod cabin, Jimmy startled his friends by emerging in the open, hugging the pony in his arms, and declaring himself the reincarnation of the Pony Express rider, and that in the hereafter he would carry the pony as a penance" for the pony's previous experience in carrying him. Only a part of this voluntary acceptance of Karmic law, came to his friends in the crude classics of mortals, and much was derived by inference and deduction.

Before long Jimmy was carefully tucked away, outside the building, his couch the terra firma, his canopy the sky, while his friends continued the night revels. In the early morning, he awoke, thoroughly chilled, and loud were his lamentations ; so continuously loud that other sleepers were disturbed. So when the belated stars were vanishing, Jimmy's outfit took up its journey on to Minatare, twenty miles away. In some manner Jimmy's departure was delayed. He departed about one hundred yards behind the wagon.

It was thoughtful of the boys to relieve Jimmy of a part of his load if he were compelled to walk twenty miles. His six guns, weighing several pounds, had been thoughtfully transferred to the wagon before starting.

While Jimmy lacked a bit the night before in ability to stay by his friends, today he gave evidence of his splendid qualities. And for the

twenty miles he followed the wagon at a maximum distance of about one hundred yards. When he ran the wagon rattled along a little faster, and when he walked the wagon slowed down, and there were opportunities for social chatter.