Jack Ranger's Western Trip - Or, from Boarding School to Ranch and Range
Young, Clarence
English
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Charles Franks
[Illustration: THE THREE RIFLES SOUNDED AS ONE.]
JACK RANGER'S WESTERN TRIP
Or
From Boarding School to Ranch and Range
BY
CLARENCE YOUNG
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. FUN AT WASHINGTON HALL
II. JACK IN TROUBLE
III. A THREATENING LETTER
IV. A LESSON IN CHEMISTRY
V. TURNING THE TABLES
VI. A PLAN THAT FAILED
VII. FOILING A PLOT
VIII. THE BURGLAR SCARE
IX. NAT'S INVITATION
X. A MEETING WITH CHOWDEN
XI. A GRAND WIND-UP
XII. HO! FOR THE WEST
XIII. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE
XIV. PROFESSOR PUNJAB'S TRICK
XV. SHOOTING AN OIL WELL
XVI. MR. POST'S ADVENTURE
XVII. THE WILD STEER
XVIII. THE OLD STOCKMAN
XIX. A THIEF IN THE NIGHT
XX. A STRANGE SEANCE
XXI. FINDING ORION TEVIS
XXII. JACK HEARS OF HIS FATHER
XXIII. ON THE RANCH
XXIV. THE OLD MAN
XXV. THE COWBOY'S TRICK
XXVI. JACK'S WILD RIDE
XXVII. THE CATTLE STAMPEDE
XXVIII. HUNTING MOUNTAIN LIONS
XXIX. LOST ON THE MOUNTAIN
XXX. A VIEW OF GOLDEN GLOW
XXXI. JACK AND NAT PRISONERS
XXXII. THE ESCAPE
XXXIII. DOWN THE SLUICEWAY
XXXIV. JACK'S GREAT FIND
XXXV. THE ROUND-UP--CONCLUSION
CHAPTER I
FUN AT WASHINGTON HALL
"Now then, are you all ready?" inquired a voice in a hoarse whisper.
"Galloping grasshoppers! We're as ready as we ever will be, Jack
Ranger!" replied one from a crowd of boys gathered on the campus of
Washington Hall that evening in June.
"Nat Anderson, if you speak again, above a whisper," said Jack
Ranger, the leader, sternly, "you will have to play 'Marching Through
Georgia' as a solo on a fine tooth comb seven times without
stopping!"
"Sneezing snakes! 'Nuff said!" exclaimed Nat, this time in the
required whisper. "Playing combs always makes my lips tickle."
"Now then, is every one ready?" asked Jack again. "If you are, come
on, for it's getting late and we'll have to do this job quick and be
back before Dr. Mead thinks it is time to send Martin the monitor
after us. Forward march!"
Then the crowd of boys, from the boarding school of Dr. Henry Mead,
known as Washington Hall, but sometimes called Lakeside Academy, from
the fact that it was on Rudmore Lake, in the town of Rudmore, started
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