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Title: Man Size

Author: William MacLeod Raine

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MAN-SIZE

BY

WILLIAM MACLEOD RAINE

AUTHOR OF

THE BIG-TOWN ROUND UP,

OH, YOU TEX! ETC

1922

TO

CAPTAIN SIR CECIL E. DENNY, BART.

OF THE FIRST THREE HUNDRED RIDERS OF THE PLAINS

WHO CARRIED LAW INTO THE LONE LANDS

AND MADE THE SCARLET AND GOLD

A SYNONYM FOR

JUSTICE, INTEGRITY, AND INDOMITABLE PLUCK

CONTENTS

I. IN THE DANGER ZONE

II. THE AMAZON

III. ANGUS McRAE DOES HIS DUTY

IV. THE WOLFERS

V. MORSE JUMPS UP TROUBLE

VI. "SOMETHING ABOUT THESE GUYS"

VII. THE MAN IN THE SCARLET JACKET

VIII. AT SWEET WATER CREEK

IX. TOM MAKES A COLLECTION

X. A CAMP-FIRE TALE

XI. C.N. MORSE TURNS OVER A LEAF

XII. TOM DUCKS TROUBLE

XIII. THE CONSTABLE BORES THROUGH DIFFICULTIES

XIV. SCARLET-COATS IN ACTION

XV. KISSING DAY

XVI. A BUSINESS DEAL

XVII. A BOARD CREAKS

XVIII. A GUN ROARS

XIX. "D' YOU WONDER SHE HATES ME?"

XX. ONISTAH READS SIGN

XXI. ON THE FRONTIER OF DESPAIR

XXII. "MY DAMN PRETTY LI'L' HIGH-STEPPIN' SQUAW"

XXIII. A FORETASTE OF HELL

XXIV. WEST MAKES A DECISION

XXV. FOR THE WEE LAMB LOST

XXVI. A RESCUE

XXVII. APACHE STUFF

XXVIII. "IS A' WELL WI' YOU, LASS?"

XXIX. NOT GOING ALONE

XXX. "M" FOR MORSE

XXXI. THE LONG TRAIL

XXXII. A PICTURE IN A LOCKET

XXXIII. INTO THE LONE LAND

XXXIV. THE MAN-HUNTERS READ SIGN

XXXV. SNOW-BLIND

XXXVI. THE WILD BEAST LEAPS

XXXVII. NEAR THE END OF A LONG CROOKED TRAIL

XXXVIII. OVER A ROTTING TRAIL

XXXIX. A CREE RUNNER BRINGS NEWS

XL. "MALBROUCK S'EN VA-T-EN GUERRE"

XLI. SENSE AND NONSENSE

XLII. THE IMPERATIVE URGE

CHAPTER I

IN THE DAN