[Chapter VIII—Headed for the High Country]
Woo Smith joins the Overland outfit. Stacy declares that his pony can climb a tree. “I want food!” is the fat boy’s plaint. The Overlanders are introduced to a “kyack.” Packs are “thrown” and the journey to the Sierras is begun.
[Chapter IX—Their Slumbers Disturbed]
“All aboard for the High Sierras!” The Chinaman proves to be a rare find. “You leave it to Smith,” advises Hippy. Stories of rattlesnakes in campers’ blankets set the Overland girls’ nerves on edge. Woo savvies “transmigration.”
[Chapter X—“Boots and Saddles”]
The Overland camp in an uproar. “Snakes! Oh, wow!” howls the fat boy. “Me savvy somebody pull queue,” wails Woo Smith. The dark mystery is finally solved. Stacy Brown proves to be an unwilling “wrangler.”
[Chapter XI—Ponies Get a Bad Fright]
Hippy uses a pea-shooter with disastrous results. The fat boy awakens in a wild rose bush. Suspicion becomes a certainty. Overlanders make a perilous descent. “The ponies are stampeding!” shouts Lieutenant Wingate.
[Chapter XII—Amid the Giant Sequoias]
“Look! Oh, look,” cries Emma Dean. Lieutenant Wingate shoots a cinnamon bear. “Uncle Hippy never misses what he hits.” Stopped by a rattler. Tom Gray lost in the great forest. Watched over by trees centuries old.