to express their fright in a chorus of screams. But Ruth Fielding, and her chum, Helen, on the front seat, controlled themsel

g all around for some means of saving the party from dis

having got Ruth Fielding and her friends here, he did not want to spoil their visit by any bad accident. These young folk had been what Bill Hicks called "mighty clever" to his Jane Ann when she had been castaway

to live with her mother's uncle, at the Red Mill, on the Lumano River, near Cheslow in York State. Her coming to Uncle Jabez Potter's, and her ear

nces Ruth was enabled to get at the heart of her crotchety old uncle, and when Ruth's dearest friend, Helen Cameron, planned to go to boarding school, Uncle Jabez was won over to the scheme of s

ward the Canadian line. In "Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp; Or, Lost in the Backwoods," the girls and some of their

allowed Ruth to accompany her friends to the seashore because he had already promised her the outing. In "Ruth Fielding at Lighthouse Point; Or, Nita, the Girl Castaway," is narrated all the fun and delightful experiences the girl of the Red Mill and her friends had at the seaside; including the

earned a few things, too. He had never seen people spend money before he came East, and he had not understood Jane Ann's longing for the delicate and beautiful things in life. He saw, too, that a girl could

ty, on a visit to Silver Ranch. But the old gentleman did not want their introduction to the ranch to be a tragedy. And with the herd of half-wild cattle ahead, and O

s elder sister, from the back seat of the tonn

; but at that her brother a

s into the h

?" cried Miss Cameron. "I can'

The Fox, who was likewise on th

ll catch you, sure

car, Miss! Better to be bunted by Old Trouble-Ma

d be better to frighten those cows in front than to

nn, grimly. "We won't li

ter the car. Helen had again brought the automobile to a stop, this time at Bill Hick

was scraped off, and the car itself was actually driven forward

turned around and headed the o

n it, Mr. Hicks," cr

exploding of a small cannon. Old Trouble-Maker had punctured a rear tire, and the car slumped down o

wheeled around the back of the car and then came full ti

did want to go to a dairy f

and her uncle hopped out on the other side and called the others to follow. At that moment, with a whoop and a drumming of hoofs, a calico cow pony cam

. The hair line uncoiled like a writhing serpent and dropped over the wide-spread horns of Old Trouble-

neck. Down the beast fell, roaring a different tune. Old Trouble-Maker almost turned a somersault, whil

s the best little old boy with the rope tha