paint?"

"She will have, when she sees you," the Little Woman retorted, watching
the farther rim of the canyon. Then she remembered Babe and called to her.
That youngster was always prospecting around on her own initiative, and
she answered shrilly now from up the canyon. The Little Woman stood up,
looking that way, never dreaming how wishfully Casey was watching her,--
and how reverently.

"Baby Girl, you must not run off like that! Mother will be compelled to
tie a rope on you."

"I was jes' getting--Casey Wyan's--'bacco. Poor Casey Wyan forgot--his
'bacco! He's my frien'. I have to give him his 'bacco," Babe defended
herself, coming down from the location monument in small jumps and
scrambles. Close to her importantly heaving chest she clutched a small,
red tobacco can of the kind which smokers carelessly call "P.A." "Casey
Wyan lost it up in the wocks," Babe explained, when her mother met her
disapprovingly and caught her by the hand.

"Why, Babe! You've been naughty. This must be Casey Ryan's location
notice. It must be left in the rocks, Baby Girl, so people will know that
Casey Ryan owns this claim."

"It's his 'bacco!" Babe insisted stubbornly. "Casey Wyan needs his
'bacco."

The Little Woman knew that streak of stubbornness of old. There was just
one way to deal with it, and that was to prove to Babe that she was
mistaken. So she opened the red can and pulled out a folded paper,
unfolded the paper and began to read it aloud. Not that Babe would
understand it all, but to make it seem very convincing and important,--and
I think partly to enjoy for herself the sense of Casey's potential wealth.

"'Notice of Location--Quartz,'" she read, and glanced over the paper at
her listening small daughter. "'To Whom it May Concern: Please take
notice that: The name of this claim is the Devil's Lantern Quartz Mining
Claim. Said Claim is situated in the--Unsurveyed--Mining District, County
of Nye, State of Nevada. Located this twenty-fifth day of September, 19--.
This discovery is made and this notice is posted this twenty-fifth day of
September,19--.

"'2. That the undersigned locators are citizens of he United States or have
declared their intention to become such, and have discovered
mineral-bearing rock--!'"

"What's mineral-bearing wock, mother?"

"That's the gold, Baby Girl. '--in place thereon and do locate and claim
same for mining purposes.

"'3. That the number of linear feet in length along the course