CHAPTER XVII
WHAT WAS IN THE NEWSPAPER
"Whatever have you got there, Tom?" asked Ruth, curiously.
"Hush! I reckon Crab lost it when you fell in the water and stirred us all up so," returned the boy, with a grin.
"Lost that paper?"
"Yes. You see, it's a page torn from the Sunday edition of a New York daily. On this side is a story of some professor's discoveries in ancient Babylon."
"Couldn't have interested Jack Crab much," remarked Ruth, smiling.
"That's what I said myself," declared Tom, hastily. "Therefore, I turned it over. And this is what Crab was showing that Nita girl, I am sure."
Ruth looked at the illustrated sheet that Tom spread before her. There was a girl on a very spirited cow pony, swinging a lariat, the loop of which was about to settle over the broadly spreading horns of a Texas steer. The girl was dressed in a very fancy "cow-girl" costume, and
