"That is one reason I am taking so much interest in this," she explained.

"I've been thinking for days about what the old friar said, that men need laughter sometimes more than food, and if we haven't any cheer to spare ourselves, we may go a-gathering it from door to door as he did crusts and carry it to those who need.

That is why I have gone on long walks and made so many calls on the few people that are here, so that I'd have something amusing to tell Jack when I came home.

But he has seemed to find my 'crusts of cheer' mighty dry food, and he didn't take half the interest in them that he did in talking to Lupe to-day." "Lupe will make a beaten track to _his_ door fast enough," prophesied Norman, "when he finds we want to buy more animals.

I'll send word to-night to him to set his traps for those coyotes and foxes." That evening after supper, Jack wheeled himself out on to the porch.