Excerpt: ...is you called me; but I guess it ain't a bad name," said Min Peters. 105 "If you'll jest let pop trail along so's I kin watch him he'll be as good as pie, I know." Then, there was Miss Cullam's reason for not wishing to start. She said she was "saddle sick." "I have been seasick, and trainsick; but I think saddlesick must be the worst, for it lasts longer. I can lie in bed now," said the poor woman, "and feel myself wabbling just as I do in that hateful saddle. "Oh, dear, me, Ruthie Fielding! I wish I had never ...
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Excerpt: ...is you called me; but I guess it ain't a bad name," said Min Peters. 105 "If you'll jest let pop trail along so's I kin watch him he'll be as good as pie, I know." Then, there was Miss Cullam's reason for not wishing to start. She said she was "saddle sick." "I have been seasick, and trainsick; but I think saddlesick must be the worst, for it lasts longer. I can lie in bed now," said the poor woman, "and feel myself wabbling just as I do in that hateful saddle. "Oh, dear, me, Ruthie Fielding! I wish I had never agreed to come without demanding a comfortable carriage." "They tell me that there are places on the trail before we get to Freezeout so narrow that a carriage can't be used. The wagons are going miles and miles around so as to escape the rough places of the straighter trail." "Goodness!" exclaimed Miss Cullam in disgust. "Is it necessary to get to Freezeout Camp in such a short time? I tell you right now: I am going to rest in bed for two days." And she did. The girls were not worried, however. They found plenty to see and to do about the mining town. As for Ruth, she set to work on her scenario, and kept Rebecca Frayne busy with the typewriter, too. She sketched out the scene she had mentioned to Helen, and it was so funny that Rebecca giggled all the time she was typewriting it. 106 "Goodness!" murmured Ruth. "I hope the audiences will think it is as funny as you do. The only trouble is, unless a good deal of the conversation is thrown on the screen, they will miss some of the best points. Dear me! Such is fate. I was born to be a humorist-a real humorist-in a day and age when 'custard-pie comedians' have the right-of-way." The third day the party started bright and early on the Freezeout trail. Flapjack Peters was well enough to ride; and he was woefully sorry for what he had done. But he was still too much "twisted" in his mind to be able to tell Ruth just how he came to...
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