CHAPTER X
“BOOTS AND SADDLES”
“Stop that noise!” shouted Tom Gray.
Emma uttered a frightened cry and springing up, started to run.
“Come back! We are all right,” commanded Miss Briggs.
“Oh, what is it? Hippy, my darlin’, are you all right?” wailed Nora.
“Snakes! Snakes! Oh, wow!” howled Stacy Brown.
All hands had turned out in a hurry, and Woo Smith was dancing about chattering and fondling his head at the base of his queue.
“Snakes! Where?” cried Emma.
“It crawled right over my face,” declared Stacy. “I grabbed it and hurled it from me, and think I must have flung it against a tree and killed it. Uncle Hip, go see if you can find it.”
“You poor fish!” chortled Hippy Wingate.