OR
Strange Adventures in a Great City
BY
ALICE B. EMERSON
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I THE GORED COW
II HOSPITALITY UNDER DIFFICULTIES
III BOB HAS GREAT NEWS
IV AT THE VENDUE
V CONSEQUENCES
VI THE RUNAWAY MISSED
VII A BELATED LETTER
VIII GOOD-BY TO BRAMBLE FARM
IX NEW FRIENDS
X FELLOW TRAVELERS
XI A SERIOUS MIX-UP
XII STRAIGHTENING THINGS OUT
XIII WASHINGTON MONUMENT
XIV LIBBIE IS ROMANTIC
XV OFF TO INVESTIGATE
XVI WHAT HALE HAD TO TELL
XVII MORE SIGHTSEEING
XVIII BETTY UNDERSTANDS
XIX AN UNEXPECTED MEETING
XX MUTUAL CONFIDENCES
XXI THE ACCIDENT
XXII BEING RESCUED
XXIII ANOTHER RESCUE
XXIV BOB IS CLEARED
XXV FUTURE PLANS
For lack of a better listener, Betty Gordon addressed the saucylittle chipmunk that sat on the top rail of the old worn fence andstared at her with bright, unwinking eyes.
"It is the loveliest vase you ever saw," said Betty, busily sortingthe tangled mass of grasses and flowers in her lap. "Heavy oldcolonial glass, you know, plain, but with beautiful lines."
The chipmunk continued to regard her gravely.
"I found it this morning when I was helping Mrs. Peabody clean thekitchen closet shelves," the girl went on, her slim fingers selectingand discarding slender stems with fascinating quickness. "It was onthe very last shelf, and was covered with dust. I washed it, andwe're going to have it on the supper table to-night with this bouquetin it. There! don't you think that's pretty?"
She held out the flowers deftly arranged and surveyed them proudly.The chipmunk cocked his brown head and seemed to be withholding hisopinion.
Betty put the bouquet carefully down on the grass beside her andstretched the length of her trim, graceful self on the turf, buryingher face luxuriously in the warm dry "second crop" of hay that hadbeen raked into a thin pile under the pin oak and left thereforgotten. Presently she rolled over and lay flat on her back,studying the lazy clouds that drifted across the very blue sky.
"I'd like to be up in an airplane," she murmured drowsily, hereyelids drooping. "I'd sail right into a cloud and see—What was that?"
She sat up with a jerk that sent the hitherto motionless chipm