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Title: 'Me-Smith'

Author: Caroline Lockhart

Illustrator: Gayle Hoskins

Release Date: December 8, 2008 [EBook #27438]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "THAT LOOK IN YOUR EYES--THAT LOOK AS IF YOU HADN'T
NOTHIN' TO HIDE--IS IT TRUE?" Page 59]

"ME-SMITH"

BY

CAROLINE LOCKHART

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

GAYLE HOSKINS

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

Copyright 1911
By J. B. Lippincott Company

Published February 15, 1911
Second printing, February 25, 1911
Third printing, March 5, 1911
Fourth printing, March 20, 1911
Fifth Printing, June 5, 1911
Sixth Printing, July 1, 1911
Seventh Printing, August 17, 1911

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. "Me--Smith" 11
II. On the Alkali Hill 18
III. The Empty Chair 29
IV. A Swap in Saddle Blankets 48
V. Smith Makes Medicine with the Schoolmarm 58
VI. The Great Secret 79
VII. Cupid "Wings" a Deputy Sheriff 95
VIII. The Bug-hunter Elucidates 110
IX. Speaking Of Grasshoppers---- 123
X. Mother Love and Savage Passion Conflict 130
XI. The Best Horse 142
XII. Smith Gets "Hunks" 156
XIII. Susie's Indian Blood 162
XIV. The Slayer of Mastodons 169
XV. Where a Man Gets a Thirst 190
XVI. Tinhorn Frank Smells Money 205
XVII. Susie Humbles Herself to Smith 213
XVIII. A Bad "Hombre" 228
XIX. When The Clouds Played Wolf 240
XX. The Love Medicine of the Sioux 248
XXI. The Murderer of White Antelope 272
XXII. A Mongolian Cupid