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Title: Left on the Prairie

Author: M. B. Cox

Illustrator: A. Pierce

Release Date: September 26, 2010 [EBook #34003]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Al Haines

[Illustration: Cover art]

[Frontispiece: 'THEN BEGAN A TERRIBLE FIGHT BETWEEN THE MAN AND THE
HORSE.' _Page_ 124.

LEFT ON THE PRAIRIE

BY

M. B. COX (NOEL WEST).

_ILLUSTRATED BY A. PEARCE_

LONDON:

WELLS GARDNER, BARTON & CO.,

3, PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS, & 44, VICTORIA STREET, S.W.

1899.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. AT LONGVIEW
II. JACK IN TROUBLE
III. JACK'S RESOLUTION
IV. JACK STARTS ON HIS JOURNEY
V. JACK GOES IN SEARCH OF NIGGER
VI. JACK IS DESERTED
VII. JACK IS RESCUED
VIII. WHAT JACK LEARNED FROM PEDRO
IX. JACK ARRIVES AT SWIFT CREEK RANCH
X. JACK'S VISIT AT SWIFT CREEK RANCH
XI. JACK CROSSES THE RANGE WITH CHAMPION JOE
XII. AT LAST!

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

'THEN BEGAN A TERRIBLE FIGHT BETWEEN THE MAN AND THE HORSE' . . . . . .
. . . _Frontispiece_

'JACK COULD HELP HIS FATHER, TOO, WHEN HE ARRIVED HOME'

'HE RUSHED OFF TO THE WOODSHED, AND WEPT AS IF HIS HEART WOULD BREAK'

'HE GOT OUT OF HIS WINDOW'

'JACK STRUCK UP "FOR EVER WITH THE LORD"'

'"YOU'D BETTER NOT COME BACK WITHOUT THE HORSE"'

'JACK FOUGHT HARD, BUT THEY WERE TOO MANY FOR HIM'

'"HERE," SAID THE MEXICAN, "DRINK THIS"'

'PEDRO LET THE NOOSE FALL OVER SENOR'S NECK'

'JACK MADE HIMSELF USEFUL'

'CARRYING HIM INTO A NICE WARM ROOM'

'THROUGH A DENSE FOREST OF PINES'

'JACK RUSHED INTO THE MIDST OF THE HORSES TOWARDS A YELLOW-COATED
BRONCHO'

'"OH, MOTHER DARLING! I AIN'T DEAD, AND I'VE FOUND YOU AT LAST!"'

LEFT ON THE PRAIRIE.

CHAPTER I.

AT LONGVIEW.

Little Jack Wilson had been born in England; but when he was quite a
baby his parents had sailed across the sea, taking him with them, and
settled out on one of the distant prairies of America. Of course, Jack
was too small when he left to reme