Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party   By: Edyth Ellerbeck Read

The Blue Bonnet Series

By Lela Horn Richards and Caroline E. Jacobs

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Each, one vol., large 12mo, illustrated $1.75

A TEXAS BLUE BONNET BLUE BONNET'S RANCH PARTY BLUE BONNET IN BOSTON BLUE BONNET KEEPS HOUSE BLUE BONNET DÉBUTANTE BLUE BONNET OF THE SEVEN STARS

THE COSY CORNER SERIES

By Caroline E. Jacobs

Each, one vol., small 12mo, illustrated $0.75

BAB'S CHRISTMAS AT STANHOPE THE CHRISTMAS SURPRISE PARTY A CHRISTMAS PROMISE

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THE PAGE COMPANY

53 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.

[Illustration: "BLUE BONNET . . . WATCHED THE SUN RISE OUT OF THE PRAIRIE." ( See page 303. )]

BLUE BONNET'S RANCH PARTY

BY C. E. JACOBS AND EDYTH ELLERBECK READ

A SEQUEL TO A TEXAS BLUE BONNET

BY C. E. JACOBS

Illustrated by JOHN GOSS

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THE PAGE COMPANY BOSTON PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1912 BY THE PAGE COMPANY

All rights reserved

Made in U. S. A.

First Impression, July, 1912 Second Impression, October, 1912 Third Impression, May, 1913 Fourth Impression, January, 1914 Fifth Impression, April, 1914 Sixth Impression, February, 1915 Seventh Impression, June, 1915 Eighth Impression, July, 1916 Ninth Impression, April, 1917 Tenth Impression, March, 1918 Eleventh Impression, July, 1919 Twelfth Impression, May, 1920 Thirteenth Impression, December, 1921

PRINTED BY C. H. SIMONDS COMPANY BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE I. THE WANDERER 1 II. IN THE BLUE BONNET COUNTRY 16 III. THE GLORIOUS FOURTH 32 IV. THE ROUND ROBIN 45 V. THE SWIMMING HOLE 60 VI. AN ADVENTURE 71 VII. A FALLING OUT 86 VIII. CONSEQUENCES 101 IX. TEXAS AND MASSACHUSETTS 112 X. ENTER CARITA 124 XI. CAMPING BY THE BIG SPRING 142 XII. POCO TIEMPO 155 XIII. AROUND THE CAMP FIRE 169 XIV. A FALLING IN 183 XV. SUNDAY 200 XVI. THE LOST SHEEP 215 XVII. SECRETS 230 XVIII. SOME ARRIVALS 242 XIX. BLUE BONNET'S BIRTHDAY 259 XX. CONFERENCES 275 XXI. BLUE BONNET DECIDES 290 XXII. HASTA LA VISTA 300

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE "BLUE BONNET . . . WATCHED THE SUN RISE OUT OF THE PRAIRIE" ( See page 303 ) Frontispiece

"COMANCHE . . . LEAPED FORWARD LIKE A CAT" 41

"' I BELIEVE THE ONLY WAY TO LEARN TO SWIM IS TO DIVE IN HEAD FIRST'" 96

"THEY ALL GATHERED GYPSY FASHION ABOUT THE FIRE" 187

"IT WAS AN EXQUISITE MINIATURE, PAINTED ON IVORY" 261

"ALEC SURVEYED HER PROUD LITTLE PROFILE" 290

Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party

CHAPTER I

THE WANDERER

BLUE BONNET put her head out of the car window for the hundredth time that hour, and drew it back with a sigh of utter exasperation.

"Uncle Cliff," she declared impatiently, "if The Wanderer doesn't move a little faster I'll simply have to get out and push!"