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to Yale.”

“Piutes!” exploded Cedric. “Piutes traditional enemy of mine! I resent that!”

Park gave it up. “Never mind,” he muttered. “Skip it.” He settled back to sulk and to wonder about the
strange things that had happened to him on this, his twenty-fifth birthday. There was nothing from
Attorney Martha Colby, because she appeared to be wrapped up in her own thoughts. Park watched
her slyly, and thought: The loveliest girl I ever saw. But more cantankerous than ordinary women. The
idea, her blaming me because she got into the truck!

They drove about a mile in complete silence, then the Indian driver, Cedric, spoke unexpectedly.

“Pocopoco is little green man,” he said.

“What!” Park screamed, jumping up.

Park's yell scared the horses, which were half-wild broncs anyway and had been waiting for a chance to
run off all day, probably. So they ran off now.

The runaway was quite lively. The team took out across the sagebrush flat which happened to be handy.
The buckboard lived up to its name, pitching from one sage tuft to another, in the air more than half the
time. Park and Attorney Colby fell off the board into the bottom of the buckboard bed, and bounced
around there in discomfort, and anything but dignity.

Cedric finally got the team stopped.

Attorney Colby looked as if she wanted to kick Park on the shins again.

“I didn't dream that being guardian to you would be so much trouble,” she said.

Park ignored her. He was wrought up about the little green man, Pocopoco. He grabbed Cedric and
shook him. “Who is Pocopoco?” Park yelled.

“My ancestor,” said Cedric.

“Which one?”

“First one.”

“Oh, nonsense!” snapped Park. “Your ancestor was probably Adam, the same as mine. Don't give me
that line of red-man talk you pull on the tourists.”

Cedric became indignant and demanded, “You want to know about Pocopoco, or don't you want to
know about Pocopoco?”

“I want to know,” Park told him. “Shoot.”



IT was a long story, and Cedric seemed to tell it all with one breath.