Beaufort Chums

Not a waft of air riffled the water; the sun was reflected from it as from a looking-glass, right into their faces, and proceeded to turn their complexions redder and redder. Al...

Like the ill wind that nevertheless blows some good, the thaw, although spoiling the coasting, opened the way for two weeks of the finest skating that Beaufort had ever known. T...

The sun, from his station a little north of east, stared full into the grape arbor sleeping room, and shone on Hal's still face. A fly hustled in, and buzzed about Hal's nose. H...

"The river is coming up at the rate of an inch an hour!" announced Mr. Miller, reading from the evening paper. "At one o'clock it was eighteen feet, and reports from the north i...

Ned's ankle healed all too rapidly, for _him_; he was out of school only three days. However, it remained weak for a much longer time, affording him the fun of limping about wit...

He and Ned and Bob were sitting on the front porch. It was two weeks after the shooting accident, and Ned, aside from the arm still carried, for safety, in a sling, was apparent...

The affair of the campaign parade was now only an irritating memory; a president and vice-president had been elected; processions were a thing of the past, with the Republican c...

Spring came early, but none too early for the majority of Beaufort people. In particular, none too early for Ned, whose ankle was proving a check on his farther winter sports; a...

When, of the eleven loads of wood, about three were still unpiled, Ned began to feel need of a change of air. It seemed to him that the climate of Deep Creek, sixteen miles down...

Although it had been subdued, and was deprived of its fangs, the fire continued to burn for several days. It burrowed deep into the sawdust, and lurked amid the great masses of...

But this fall, gun and duck did not stand as the only excitement for Ned and the other Beaufort youth. Politics were red hot. A president and vice-president of the United States...

The river went down as rapidly as it had come up, but left upon the clap-boards of the Diamond Jo warehouse a line of mud in token of its visit. People in the low-lying portions...

One o'clock in a morning of the last of May, and the Miller household, all unconscious of disaster, was soundly slumbering. Then in amidst Ned's dreams crept a dull series of no...

Filled with recipes from his friends, for changing a black eye to normal white, Ned returned home, and unseen save by Bob, gained his room. He put in an anxious half hour experi...

Wood-piling time had come again. It found a new barn and a new shed already standing, in place of the old ones, upon the Miller premises. The scorched house had been repainted a...

Bob had now rounded into a fine, strong dog, pleasing in manners and respectable in appearance. At the time of his rescue from the barn by Ned and Hal he was in his hobbledehoy...

The boys stayed at Rock Creek ten days. At last they were completely out of bait; the little marsh had been scoured clean of frogs, and even the snakes had deserted it; every st...

Thus passed the days in Beaufort; very good days they were, too, taking them all in all. But they could not go on forever; in human experience nothing--not even eleven loads of...