e Bells of

clamation as he gazed at the immense

in' to start a hotel hereabouts? When'

. Ware," looking rather red and uncomfortable

er to transport all that duffle. We ain't goin' to sea; we'r

4

ietly, a mischievous smil

Bells of Scotla

s say no camper should be without," exclaimed

" said poor Hardware, crimsoning under the guide's

g in Maine, I don't d

lthy New Yorkers, his parents' ideas of "a camp" had

llers came up here to rough it. I'm goin' to see that you do. The cooking will mostly be[47] done b

aid with the cooking and help out

the agent's cook stove, looked worse than before, "that kid seems all right, and he can take his turn with th

eing swept aside. Evidently this mountaineer looked upon all men and boys

[48] with approval. He knew that out in the wilderness, be it mountain or plain, certain false standards of caste and station count for no

u don't," decided Mountain Jim presently. "Most times it's the things that you think you

journey into Kentucky, managed to worry along on pinole and salt, a

Jim, "but he must uv been a good woodsman. N

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huge pile of things that he declared unnecessary were heaped upon the depot platform. As for poor Hardw

come back," said Jim; "the station agent will look a

nt's room and dressed himself in his new garments, the change in him was so remarkable, when he reappeared, as to be nothing less than striking. In the place of the ragged looking Bowery boy, they saw a well set-up lad in natty[50] h

he professor were found to have a few, had occupied much time. Then, after hearty adieus to the station agent, who had incidentally been the recipient of a generous gratuity from the professor, they mounted their ponies and, with Mountain Jim in the lead, st

the little cavalcade passed beneath them. At the summit of the rocky cliff that towered above th

the columnular trunks that shot up on every side like the pillars

okey win

lankum m

re that th-e-y

ouldn't kee

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shod hoofs clattered out a metalli

monotony of keeping pace with the pack animals and the const

The only way to get off it is to fall off," said Jim cheerfully, dra

vided with a quiet horse, and who was intent, as he rode along, on a

on, boys," shouted back Ralph, as

n the distance. Jimmie alone remained behind. He felt that his duty as general assistant demanded it. When

full this trip, professor," he re

oked up from his

" he said mildly. "But surely that is a fine

thery plant indicated, which grew in great profu

said the

shouts[54] and yells that made it appear as if a troop of rampant Indians was on t