Front matter
Reading edition
“‘LOOK! LOOK! THERE BY THOSE LITTLE BUSHES!’”
Copyright, 1907, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
All rights reserved.
Published September, 1907.
TO
C. A. J.
CONTENTS
I. Palomitas 1
II. The Sage-Brush Hen 15
III. Hart’s Nephew’s Hold-Up 44
IV. Santa Fé Charley’s Kindergarten 77
V. Boston’s Lion-Hunt 127
VI. Shorty Smith’s Hanging 163
VII. The Purification of Palomitas 208
Illustrations
“‘LOOK! LOOK! THERE BY THOSE LITTLE BUSHES!’” Frontispiece
“HER LEFT HAND WAS LAYING IN HER LAP, AND THE OLD GENT GOT A-HOLD OF IT” 22
“WROTE OUT A NOTICE THAT WAS TACKED UP ON THE DEEPO DOOR” 84
“‘ONE OF THE NEW GERMAN KINDERGARTEN APPLIANCES’” 120
“STARING ’ROUND THE PLACE SAME AS IF HE’D STRUCK A MENAGERIE” 132
“‘IT’S HOTTER THAN SAHARA!’ SAID THE ENGLISHMAN” 166
“AND DOWN HART WENT IN A HEAP ON THE FLOOR” 196
“‘DON’T HANG HIM, SIR!’ SHE GROANED OUT” 224