M. A. Donohue & Co.

CHICAGO

Contents

I.[Over the Edge]
II.[Lucky Jimmy]
III.[The Helping Hand]
IV.[Picking up Points]
V.[Around the Camp Fire]
VI.[The Wolf Pack]
VII.[Everybody Busy]
VIII.[An Unwelcome Guest]
IX.[The Homing Pigeon]
X.[At Double Cross Ranch]
XI.[The Sheep and the Goats]
XII.[Nipping a Mutiny]
XIII.[At Washout Coulie]
XIV.[Stampeding the Prize Bunch]
XV.[Jimmy’s Unwilling Ride]
XVI.[After the Rustlers’ Raid]
XVII.[The Shrewd Old Fox]
XVIII.[More Trouble Ahead]
XIX.[At Bay in the Canyon]
XX.[Smoked Out]
XXI.[In the Hands of the Rustlers]
XXII.[Coming of the Real Boss—Conclusion]

Boy Scouts on the Open Plains

CHAPTER I.
OVER THE EDGE.

“’Tis meself that calls this pretty tough mountain climbin’, and me athinkin’ all the while the road to Uncle Job’s cattle ranch would take us along the bully open plain all the way!”

“Hold your horses, Jimmy; we’ve got to about the end of this hill climbing. After we cross this divide it’s going to be the kind of travel you mention, all on the level. One more town to pass through, and then we strike out for the ranch. Any minute now we ought to glimpse the low country through this canyon that we’ve been following over the ridge.”