"I wish I had been on that hunt." Belle was going East with Laura and Jessie, and Snogger accompanied the boys and Mr.Porter.All received a warm send-off at the railroad station.
"Come again!" shouted Sid Todd, and to show his spirits fired his revolver into the air, and the other cowboys did the same.
At Chicago the party were met by Charley Gamp.

Hank Snogger hugged his boy to his breast and wept for joy, and Charley cried too, and so did the girls.

Then it was learned that Snogger was really a carpenter by trade.

He said he would settle down in the city, and did so, and to-day he is a steady workman, and he and Charley have a good home.

The father is giving the son a good education, hoping to make a first-class business man of him.
"Well, all told, we had the outing of our lives," declared Roger, on the way to Crumville.
"It couldn't have been better!" cried Dave.