"You'll see 'em soon," was the promise of the driver.
All of a sudden a great noise burst out. There was the shooting of
pistols and loud shouts.
"Yi! Yi! Yip!" came in shrill cries.
"Woo! Wow!" sounded, as if in answer.
"Bang! Bang!" went the firearms.
"What is that?" cried Nan, holding her hands over her ears.
"Those are the cowboys," answered Dick Weston, with a smile. "That's
their way of telling you they're glad to see you. Here we are at the
ranch."
CHAPTER XVIII
A RUNAWAY PONY
Suddenly the noise of the shooting and shouting stopped. The children
looked up toward the top of a little hill, for the sounds seemed to
have come from the other side of that. As yet they had seen nothing
that looked like a ranch, nor had they caught a glimpse of any cows or
cowboys.
But, all at once Flossie cried:
"Oh, there they are! I see 'em!"
"So do I!" echoed Freddie.
And, with that, over the hill came racing about ten laughing, shouting
and cheering men, each one waving his hat in one hand while the other
held aloft something black, and from this black thing came spurts of
smoke and banging noises.
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