Nine short adventures place the fates of others in the hands of stouthearted twelve-year-old Irene, from her naked safety dance to lure a panther away from her siblings to her rescue of a horse bound for the glue factory....
Despite her mother's pleas to act like a lady, Irene Hutto races mule-drawn wagons, saves her family from a panther, and has other adventures growing up on a Texas cotton farm during the Great Depression. Reprint....