Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: "THAT LOOK IN YOUR EYES--THAT LOOK AS IF YOU HADN'T NOTHIN' TO HIDE--IS IT TRUE?" Page 59] "ME-SMITH" BY CAROLINE LOCKHART WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY GAYLE HOSKINS NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS Copyright 1911 By J. B. Lippincott Company Published February 15, 1911 Second printing, February 25, 1911 Third printing, March 5, 1911 Fourth printing, March 20, 1911 Fifth Printing, June 5, 1911 Sixth Printing, July 1, 1911 Seventh Printing, August 17, 1911 CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. "Me--Smith" 11 II. On the Alkali Hill 18 III. The Empty Chair 29 IV. A Swap in Saddle Blankets 48 V. Smith Makes Medicine with the Schoolmarm 58 VI. The Great Secret 79 VII. Cupid "Wings" a Deputy Sheriff 95 VIII. The Bug-hunter Elucidates 110 IX. Speaking Of Grasshoppers---- 123 X. Mother Love and Savage Passion Conflict 130 XI. The Best Horse 142 XII. Smith Gets "Hunks" 156 XIII. Susie's Indian Blood 162 XIV. The Slayer of Mastodons 169 XV. Where a Man Gets a Thirst 190 XVI. Tinhorn Frank Smells Money 205 XVII. Susie Humbles Herself to Smith 213 XVIII. A Bad "Hombre" 228 XIX. When The Clouds Played Wolf 240 XX. The Love Medicine of the Sioux 248 XXI. The Murderer of White Antelope 272 XXII. A Mongolian Cupid 293 XXIII. In Their Own Way 303 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE "That Look in Your Eyes--That Look as if You Hadn't Nothin' to Hide--is it True?" Frontispiece "She's a Game Kid, All Right," Said Smith to Himself at the Top of the Hill. 22 It Meant Death--but it was Wet!--it was Water! 196 Smith Reached for the Trailing Rope and They Were Gone! 284 They Quirted Their Horses at Breakneck Speed In the Direction of the Bad Lands. 308 "ME--SMITH" I "ME--SMITH"