Chapter 1. The Cub Engineers Reach Camp
_ CHAPTER I. THE CUB ENGINEERS REACH CAMP
"Look, Tom! There is a real westerner!" Harry Hazelton‘s eyes sparkled, his whole manner was one of intense interest.
"Eh?" queried Tom Reade, turning around from his distant view of a sharp, towering peak of the Rockies.
"There‘s the real thing in the way of a westerner," Harry Hazelton insisted in a voice in which there was some awe.
"I don‘t believe he is," retorted Tom skeptically.
"You‘re going to say, I suppose, that the man is just some freak escaped from the pages of a dime novel?" demanded Harry.
"No； he looks more like a hostler on a leave of absence from a stranded Wild West show," Tom replied slowly.
There was plenty of time for them to inspect the stranger in question. Tom and Harry were seated on a mountain springboard wagon drawn by a pair of thin horses. Their driver, a boy of about eighteen, sat on a tiny make-believe seat almost over the traces. This youthful driv

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