en, nudging Dolly with his
elbow, "four hundred a week, Dolly; four hundred! Gee!" he cried.

The practical side of Charles-Norton seemed at last awakened; he danced
around the table in glee. But Dolly, singularly, did not join in.

The next morning, bright and early, Dolly and Charles-Norton heard a
haloo outside and, emerging, found Bison Billiam erect upon his
motionless horse in the center of the snow-covered meadow. "You've had
breakfast?" he asked pleasantly.

"Well--yes," said Dolly; "just got through," said the little liar (there
wasn't anything within the cabin to breakfast upon).

"We'll begin right away, then," said Bison Billiam. "We leave at noon."

He dismounted, and Dolly and he seated themselves side by side, with
backs against the cabin, while Charles-Norton gave them an exhibition.

He winged off first directly for the crest gleaming high in the distance,
making his line straight and swift; then returned in a perfect curve that
spanned the distance like a rainbow. Remaining above the meadow, now, he
drew all his fantasies against the sky and finally, rising high till he
was a mere dot in the heavens, he shot down like a white thunderbolt and
landed at their feet in snowy explosion of extended wings.

He found Bison Billiam and Dolly conferring earnestly. "Two feet, I
think," Bison Billiam said. Dolly ran into the cabin and returned with a
pair of glittering scissors.

"What are you going to do?" asked Charles-Norton, suddenly cold and
distrustful.

"Cut off two feet," said Dolly, laughingly. "Mr. Billiam says to cut off
two feet."

"Off my wings?" yelped Charles-Norton; "off my wings?"

Dolly turned her eyes to Bison Billiam in doubt, in appeal. "It's in the
contract, young man," said Bison Billiam. "Haven't you read the contract?"
he said, drawing the document from his jacket.

"No, I haven't," said Charles-Norton, shortly. "Let me see it."

And he read, beneath Bison Billiam's pointing finger: "It shall be
regarded as a part of this agreement that the length of the flying
apparatus, whatsoever it may be, shall be determined by the party of the
first part."

"I won't!" thundered Charles-Norton.

"Goosie, dear," implored Dolly; "Goosie, dear, only two feet, and it's in
the contract, Goosie, dear----"

He turned upon her fiercely. "Why can't you eat pine-nuts?" he cried;
"why, why, why?"

She drew back a step and looked at him with great large eyes, and as he
met them, he saw them f