. The top of the continent; the story of a cheerful journey through our national parks. garet shook her head. ** Sierra Nevada means the saw-toothed, snowymountains because **0h! she interrupted, *I see now. Thats whyyou called them that in the story. Jack was missing. They called him but withoutreply. They hurried out and shouted his name. , thinking of the tangled wilderness they hadcome through, was seriously alarmed. Aunt Jane wasdistracted; Uncle Tom was more vexed than worried;Margaret was scared and tearful. When it was evi-dent that he was out of hearing of their shouts, t
. The top of the continent; the story of a cheerful journey through our national parks. garet shook her head. ** Sierra Nevada means the saw-toothed, snowymountains because **0h! she interrupted, *I see now. Thats whyyou called them that in the story. Jack was missing. They called him but withoutreply. They hurried out and shouted his name. , thinking of the tangled wilderness they hadcome through, was seriously alarmed. Aunt Jane wasdistracted; Uncle Tom was more vexed than worried;Margaret was scared and tearful. When it was evi-dent that he was out of hearing of their shouts, theygathered by the great root to determine what to McKinley tried to be comforting; he said thepark rangers surely would find him before nightfall,but Mrs. Jefferson was not comforted. At best, thenights were very cold in the big woods. They talkedearnestly. Margaret began to sob aloud. Suddenly a loud, gleeful shout brought the confer-ence to a startled finish. There sat Jack, grinninghappily, upon the highest up-standing root of the tree, A LONG LIFE AND A HAPPY ONE !211. Suddenly a loud, gleeful shout brought the conference to a startled finish perhaps forty feet above ^ their heads. But, as the Jef- fersons looked up at him, his ^ smile faded; it became instantly \/.r\ apparent to him that what had seemed so good a joke to him was no joke to them. ml\ Mrs. Jefferson, indeed, turned quite pale, and called: **Dont move, Jack! Stay right 212 THE TOP OF THE CONTINENT where you are and hold tight. Uncle Tom and DoctorMcKinley will come up and get you. Oh, I wish wehad a rope. Look out or youll fall. **I wont fall, cried Jack; Ill climb down wont have any one come for me. Uncle Tom already was rapidly climbing the tangledroots. Disregarding the protests from below. Jackhurriedly began to scramble down. It would be dis-graceful to be helped. But his haste was his a dozen feet from the ground, he slipped and fellface downward. Doctor McKinley, waitin
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