"There it is! I can see the house!" he said. "We're not lost. We
were just down in a hollow I guess."

And so it was. The prairies, though they look level, are made up of
little hills and valleys, or hollows. Down in between two hills one
might be very near a house and yet not see it.

"Now we're all right," went on Teddy.

"Yes," agreed Janet "We're not lost anymore."

So they rode on a little farther, the ponies now and then stopping
to crop a bit of the sweet grass, when, all of a sudden, Teddy, who
was still a little ahead of his sister, called:

"Look there, Jan!"

"Where?"

Teddy pointed. His sister saw several men on horseback--at least
that is what they looked like--coming toward them. Something about
the figures seemed a bit strange to the children. Ted and Jan looked
at one another and then back toward the ranch houses, which, they
made sure, were not out of sight this time.

"Are they cowboys?" asked Jan of her brother.

"They--they don't just look like 'em," he said. "I mean like Uncle
Frank's cowboys."