"This is a fright." "There! Why didn't you 'con-centrate,' Emma Dean ?" demanded Hippy.

"Old Con-centration is never on the job when he is really needed." "How could I when I didn't know anything about this ?" returned Emma, with a sweeping gesture that took in the entire camp.

"What are we going to do now?
Where are we to sleep, I ask you ?" "Sleep standing up just as the ponies do, my darlin'," suggested Nora.
"Who do you suppose could have done such a thing?
Why--" Washington, who had gone out to tether the horses, set up a howl that called the Overlanders to him on a run.
"Dey done got de mule! Dey done got de mule!" he wailed.

"What Ah gwine do now?
Ah doan like dis nohow.

Ah sure gwine took er frenzy spell if dis doan stop right smart." "The mule ?" gasped Anne.