The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks

wo boys stood pale and trembling. There was no doubt i

uted the Professor, recovering hi

is nothing we can do

ed to the edge and was g

y! There he is

he Professor, running u

et below us. He has lodged between two

d down, doubled over like a sack of meal, a sharp rock having caug

ery secure pos

t, Chunky?"

now. I think

ow what happened to him?" a

troubles of my own. G

old on mu

t, we'll save you," cried Wal

ed the Professor. "What ar

oulders, if anything more

ed, as if it were a

That surely ought to

ting away t

. They're all in the pack down at th

pless," groaned

ed Ned, in a voice of stern determination. There was no laug

redskin, you," he com

obeyed r

ng to do?" demand

wail from the

quiet. Don't you mov

eed if I have to h

oing to form a human chain, the way we used to do to get pond lilies at home. Profess

de fast to the tree with the remaining

kin a jerk that sent him sprawling. "Take hold of his ankles and hang on, Profess

ns failed. The human chain w

, quick!"

piring, weak and trembling, Ned finally succeeded in sc

" begged the Profess

ot to do it. Sit down and brace your feet again

of him, and next came the Shawnee and Ned Rector, each, save th

ankles of the one ahead

d boys, still doubled up, let them

serpent, Ned Rector slipping slowly over the brink, the red man squi

got a rush of blood to the head. Pull now! Pull for all you'

esponsibility that rested upon his shoulders, and each wa

he certain knowledge that if he failed he would go

. He's a dead weight this way and I'm afr

finally in turning Stacy around

eet, Chunky, and

y did gla

op me," h

go you'll be all right,"

rmination that did him credit. At last they succeeded in pulling Ned and Chunky to the surface. Both b

ned Chunky. "Did you see me fall in? But whe

e edge as soon as he was able to get hi

he boys added their voices

ly to check his fall. He was powerless to do so. However, the rope did this for him to a certain extent, catching here and there in crevices in the rocks, jolting T

one in search of, but the shock was so severe

nscious he heard his comp

e them that he was safe, but the roar of the str

em hear," he said to himself. "They will be beside

tly to carry to the top of the cliff, the lad strug

using their voices that they did n

e, when Ned Rector, who had been anxiously peering i

hing moving,

ound him as close to

to make nothing

! He's signaling us

asked the Prof

ed Ned, grasping the Professor by t

u'll have both of us over t

ler down there. Goodness knows how far he fell, and Chunky got a bump that would have knocked the breath

f cloth waved mo

matter, can'

ief fluttered

meaning that the boy cou

raid he

ould be unable to stand up and s

were trying to climb u

un

iscovered Tad emerging from the bu

d the Professor, anxiously. "He

is about. He won't try to c

hat he's up t

to get away from the roar of the water that was hurling itself f

s would allow, Tad perched himself behind a point o

l a Pony Rider

erything. Of course there is liable to be a first time. We don't want that to happen. But we hav

di

ered Tad, in a voice that they could c

you fall?" sh

asure the distance," answ

ered a shout

r did C

appened

rying to catch the

y! Hurt

us more in ge

e provisions ruined?" s

ing save some of the cookin

d with canvas to insure them against exactl

et the stuff up

here. I can't very well throw the things u

tlemen, will you tell me how Master Tad himself is going to get back? Don'

fully. "But there must be some

t now. Master Tad is down in the canyon and from the present outlook he is liable to remain there for some time. Any of yo

ged his shoulder

Spirits git

kind of talk,

ing," interr

it?" as

e and let

en feet of rope

. I've got to get o

uld depend upon, within twenty or thi