Frontier Boys in Frisco

existence, but simply that he felt full of the exuberance of life, after the night's adventure; the very air was intoxicating. Th

rilled to the sense of coming adventures. But the fact that he was soon to enjoy a good breakfast had something to do with his feeling of contentment. Besides, he and the engineer were objects of interest in this little mount

ing-room, with the whitest of cloths and everything about the table neat and attractive. It was not at all like the Wild

g fast, and plenty of exercise. The reader can vouch as to the amount of exercise that James had undergone in the past few hours. The dining-room was full of tourists at the different tables, and it was a lively and animated

wonderful trip into Mexico, the excursion into Hawaii, and what occurred in the Hollow Mountain, likewise of their encounter with Captain Broome, that booming old pirat

ook a quick look at his watch, "the train you pass here is due in ten minutes and th

fresh air will seem

uld settle for the breakfast but Ketchel winked at the clerk behind the circular counter with its usual cigar case, a

your friend were held up in Bear Valley last night, tog

is leaving on No. 7 and we are old

went out into the crisp, clear air. The snow crunched under their feet as they paced along the p

ed the white smoke rising into the clear cold from the chimneys of the little settlement, the encircling hills of the basin where it lay, all of a crystalline whiteness and the sky as blue, as the snow was

solid man of quiet demeanor; he looked

Bear Valley gang, Bob. Stole the pilot off your engine, eh?" An

in on time, Joe," sa

me, we'll have to start now. Anyth

l, "give him a ride th

limbed into his engine and th

hel, as they gripped hand

e train, that was now gathering speed and soon the settlement was left be

inute of it, especially the ride on the locomotive through Red Canyon, with its walls rising for several thousands of feet

n at the foot of the range, Jim got out as usual to take a walk up and down the platform. He saw a small box in front of the station

untered up to the cage and lifting the cheap red curtain looked in. What he saw made him gasp for a second, but he did

ng their knees, or beating each other on the back, and their mouths were opened wide enough to have swallowed the aforesaid Bat (Brick). Jim felt like a fool and a

honored reader, when thou hadst one of them given thee to keep the record of thy important life? I bet thou dustest. Perhaps, for ten successive days were daily jottings put down

rick which he annotated with proper data, keeping all the time an imp

himself squarely in front of the most boisterous of the group, began calmly to make a sketch of this wide-mouth

was not prepared for this maneuver and he was thrown from his ba