The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine

u mean?" in

nough to try to find old Sime Moultrie's stake

ouble with the Indians or the two whit

ther of 'em," repl

d Fred persistently. "Do you thin

mains to

ink we will?"

hink I'm takin' a good deal more trouble than I need to. The chances are one hundred to one that there isn't any such thing as Moultrie's stake, and if there isn't, why then of course we're all safe anyway." Zeke thr

and, used the one skiff that remained They did not, however, venture far in the little boat because they were compelled to tow it back one or two of the boys remaining in the boat, while their com

es of the cliff, but these were cautiously undertake

ly watched. He declared that Fred "usually

ccasionally prevailed upon their gruff guide to relate some

It happened that I was at Reno with my mother one time and I had to drive about forty miles to my aunt's where she was going to visit. The houses out there aren't so thick that anybody gets over-afrai

a good road?" i

eighteen miles from Reno, right in a narrow little gorge I saw two men comin' toward us. They were in a buggy and I knew right away from the looks of their horses

give them most of the road for I didn't want any trouble as lo

was worse than two to one for I not only had to fight for myself, but for my mother. However, she is pretty game and she saw what was up so she turned to me and said, said she, 'Zeke, you hand me the reins and I'll look after the horses and

the new sense?" inq

t come from the East. He usually gave me all the advic

took hold of my horse's head and tried to back away they just moved up their horses so that the wheels kept locked just as they had been before. I looked at the wheels and pretty quick I made up my mind that mine were a good deal stronger than theirs. I had told my mother when I took the reins that she had better get out while we were tryin' to break loose there. Of course she

could muster, and when little Zeke really tries hard to make himself heard there isn't usually much trouble in hearing him. I struck my horses with my whip at the same time and all together we had considerable of a ruction, but it turned out just as I thought it would. Their horses were scared worse than mine and when they all four jumped ahead going in oppo

try to c

ing troubles enough of their own just then.

ve they meant to rob

fore I heard of a man being held up just as I was. Two men came along in a buggy and locked wheels with him and while he was trying to help himself out of the fix on

d what?" l

was the name of the mountain brook right

hat you had any fig

t if it hadn't been for me havin' my mother 'long with me. Perhaps

ing about that," said Fred so dr

"that we're likely to have troubl

ust tellin' you what's going on 'round here so that you

e any trouble with those two m

nd no claim, and if there ain't no claim then you won't have no trouble. So it's just

d George so solemnly that

uile the slowly moving hours the boys insisted upon his recounting many of his adventures, some of

entered the valley. They were heavily laden with packs and explained that up on the cliff other possessions which they had secured h

ce the difficult climb had to be made and even the return to the camp, although the trai

g morning, they were startled by the return of the two Navajos who had visited the camp soon after the departure of Pete and John. It was quickly manifest that both Indians in sp