Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim
Two Wyoming Girls and Their Homestead Claim
A Story for Girls
Free DownloadThe two Wyoming girls were orphaned when their father lost his life in the mines. This story tells how bravely they fought to maintain and secure their homestead claim, and how well they succeeded. They not only win their claim, but by their fidelity, pluck, and courage, turned their enemy, Mr. Horton, into a true and faithful friend. A grand book for girls, and one that cannot fail to excite wholesome influence.
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d, with unusual persistence, "Me do!"
"No," father reiterated. He opened the door, and we slipped out, followed for some distance along the trail by the deserted youngster's ear-splitting shrieks. Father halted once, looking irresolutely at me as a peculiarly heart-rending outburst came to our ears. "I could easily carry him up there," he said, with a somewhat sheepish look, "but I suppose you couldn't fetch him home?"
"Come along, father," I retorted, slipping my hand under his arm. "Jessie will have Ralph consoled before you could get back to the house, and, when we started, you were in some doubt as to whether I could carry a spade home from the mine."
"That's true," father confessed. "But hasn't the boy got a pair of lungs, though? I doubt if I was ever able to yell like that. I dare say it's partly owing to the climate; it's very healthy."
CHAPTER II
THE WILL OF THE WATERS
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