“THAT LOOK IN YOUR EYES—THAT LOOK AS IF YOU HADN’T NOTHIN’ TO HIDE—IS IT TRUE?” Page 59

“ME-SMITH”

BY

CAROLINE LOCKHART

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

GAYLE HOSKINS

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

Copyright 1911

By J. B. Lippincott Company

Published February 15, 1911

Second printing, February 25, 1911

Third printing, March 5, 1911

Fourth printing, March 20, 1911

Fifth Printing, June 5, 1911

Sixth Printing, July 1, 1911

Seventh Printing, August 17, 1911

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.“Me—Smith” [11]
II.On the Alkali Hill [18]
III.The Empty Chair [29]
IV.A Swap in Saddle Blankets [48]
V.Smith Makes Medicine with the Schoolmarm [58]
VI.The Great Secret [79]
VII.Cupid “Wings” a Deputy Sheriff [95]
VIII.The Bug-hunter Elucidates [110]
IX.Speaking Of Grasshoppers—— [123]
X.Mother Love and Savage Passion Conflict [130]
XI.The Best Horse [142]
XII.Smith Gets “Hunks” [156]
XIII.Susie’s Indian Blood [162]
XIV.The Slayer of Mastodons [169]
XV.Where a Man Gets a Thirst [190]
XVI.Tinhorn Frank Smells Money [205]
XVII.Susie Humbles Herself to Smith [213]
XVIII.A Bad “Hombre” [228]
XIX.When The Clouds Played Wolf [240]
XX.The Love Medicine of the Sioux [248]
XXI.The Murderer of White Antelope [272]
XXII.A Mongolian Cupid [293]
XXIII.In Their Own Way [303]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

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“That Look in Your Eyes—That Look as if You Hadn’t Nothin’ to Hide—is it True?”[ Frontispiece]
“She’s a Game Kid, All Right,” Said Smith to Himself at the Top of the Hill.[22]
It Meant Death—but it was Wet!—it was Water![196]
Smith Reached for the Trailing Rope and They Were Gone![284]
They Quirted Their Horses at Breakneck Speed In the Direction of the Bad Lands.[308]

“ME—SMITH”