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Title: Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers

Author: Jessie Graham Flower

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GRACE HARLOWE'S OVERLAND RIDERS AMONG THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINEERS

by

JESSIE GRAHAM FLOWER, A. M.

Illustrated

The Saalfield Publishing Company
Akron, Ohio New York
Made in U. S. A.
Copyright MCMXXI
by The Saalfield Publishing Company

[Illustration: "It's Grace!"
_Frontispiece._]

CONTENTS

PAGE

CHAPTER I--EXCITEMENT IN THE FOOTHILLS 11

Washington Washington's music is rudely interrupted.
The revenge of an outraged mule. "Why dat fool mule
kick me?" Hippy airs his knowledge of woodcraft.
"Laundry" puts the Overland camp in an uproar.

CHAPTER II--THE MYSTERY MAN 25

"Dis am de sebbenth yeah." The Spectacle Man
introduces himself. The voice from the wilderness.
The visitor gives the Overland Riders a word of
advice. Mystified by an appearance and a
disappearance.

CHAPTER III--HIPPY BOUNCES THE "SHEREEF" 32

Overlanders ordered to leave the mountains at once.
Hippy Wingate's smile grows into a frown. A bullet
that missed its mark. Grace Harlowe steps on Washington's
neck and starts an uproar. A