CONTENTS

[The Mystery of Old Daddy's Window]
['Way Down in Poor Valley]
[Chapter I]
[Chapter II]
[A Mountain Storm]
[Borrowing a Hammer]
[The Conscripts' Hollow]
[Chapter I]
[Chapter II]
[Chapter III]
[Chapter IV]
[Chapter V]
[A Warning]
[Among the Cliffs]
[In the "Chinking"]
[On a Higher Level]
[Christmas Day on Old Windy Mountain]

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[He was Pallid and Panting]
[Together they went over the Cliff]
[How Long was it to Last]
[In the Midst of the Torrent]

THE YOUNG MOUNTAINEERS


THE MYSTERY OF OLD DADDY'S WINDOW

Picture to yourself a wild ravine, gashing a mountain spur, and with here and there in its course abrupt descents. One of these is so deep and sheer that it might be called a precipice.