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Across Texas

187 pages 

NICK RIBSAM, of whom I had considerable to tell you in “The Young Moose Hunters,”
returned to his humble home in Western Pennsylvania with his health fully restored
by his stirring experience in the mountainous forests of Maine. He was naturally
strong and active, and one glance at his bright eyes, his ruddy cheeks, and his alert
movements told his sister Nellie and the beloved father and mother that the
prescription of the physician had worked like a charm.
Nick was now a sturdy youth, a bright scholar and a general favorite with all who knew
him. His parents were not of the kind that are demonstrative, but their hearts were
wrapped up in their worthy son, and they were full of gratitude that he should come back
to them at the end of what, after all, was only a brief absence, without a trace of the
weakness that caused them so much misgiving when he went away.