eet Jim as she would have done many months before.

The rain ceased and just before an early tea Jim lifted Jack and carried
her out on the great porch in front of Rainbow Lodge. A giant rainbow
spanned the heavens, and they wished to take a farewell of their beloved
ranch with the arch of promise above them.

"See, Frieda, dear," Jack called gayly, "the rainbow does dip into the
creek where we found our pot of gold. I told you it ended on our place,
and that's why father gave it the name of 'The Rainbow Ranch.'"

Frieda shook her head, not being gifted with a vivid imagination. "I
can't see it, sister," she argued seriously. "The rainbow just slips off
in the sky somewhere. But I know a verse of poetry that Ruth taught me.
Would you like me to say it?"

Everybody nodded with their eyes resting lovingly on the beautiful
rain-washed fields of the ranch, shining now with a new, colorful beauty
from the reflected glory in the heavens.

Frieda walked out in the yard facing her audience, her long blond
pigtails quivering with the importance of her position, and her
turquoise eyes shining with interest. Quite unconscious of her small
self, with her gaze fastened on Jack, she raised one dimpled arm,
reciting proudly:

"O beautiful rainbow, all woven of light!
There's not in thy tissue one shadow of night;
Heaven surely is open when thou dost appear,
And bending above thee, the angels draw near
And sing: 'The Rainbow! The Rainbow!
The smile of God is here.'"

The next book in this series devoted to the histories of the ranch girls
will find them living in a totally new environment. How they are to
enjoy the life of a fashionable boarding school; how their
unconventional ideas will influence their school mates; what effect
their sudden possession of great wealth will have upon them, and whether
Jack will find her health, Olive her parentage, and what will develop
for Ruth, must be told in a third volume to be entitled: "The Ranch
Girls at Boarding School."

The Ranch Girls Series

The first volume of this series is entitled "The Ranch Girls at Rainbow
Lodge." "The Ranch Girls' Pot of Gold" is the second volume of the
series. The story of the four "Ranch Girls" continues along lines of
constantly increasing interest, and the change of scene accomplished in
the third volume of the series, "The Ranch Girls at Boarding School,"
shows them in a new and strange environment. How they bri