Little Snap the Postboy; Or, Working for Uncle Sam

by George Waldo Browne

But Little Snap was within half a mile of Daring's Diamond, when he heard the sound of a horseman, who, he fancied at first, was pursuing him.

In a moment the rider came into view from ahead, however, and he was not long in recognizing Sammy mounted on Fairy!

At sight of him his brother stopped, when our hero exclaimed:

"Why, Sam Lewis! What has brought you here?"

The little fellow was so excited and out of breath that it was some time before he could speak.

Then he gasped in an almost inaudible tone:

"Where—where have you been, Dix?"

"Why, on my way home, of course. What has happened?"

"Everything bad! We heard that you had been killed. Mother—father!"

Then, overcome by the ordeal through which he had passed, Sammy fell forward on Fairy's neck in a faint, and he would have fallen to the ground had not Little Snap caught hold of him.