The Housekeeper of Circle C

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Arthur Mackley receives a telegram from a housekeeper stating that she will arrive that day. The cowpunchers on the ranch "hitch up," go to the station, meet the new housekeeper and kidnap her. The following day Mackley, wondering where the housekeeper can be, is about to ask two or three of his men on the ranch, when he discovers the new housekeeper seated on the lawn reading to an army of cowpunchers. The men scatter in all directions when they see Mackley approach. Mackley informs the lady that he has engaged her services. She decides he has not, by hitting him in the face with a book. Mackley, thoroughly disgusted, places a sign on a tree advertising for a housekeeper, the homelier the better. The boys play a trick on Mackley by dressing Harold Wheeler, one of the cowpunchers, as a girl. Determined not to lose the new housekeeper, Mackley proposes to Wheeler. The young love affair comes abruptly to an end when Mackley discovers that the young housekeeper has pin feathers.