Bobby Blake in the Frozen North; Or, The Old Eskimo's Last Message

“Gee whiz, but that was a hot one!” exclaimed Fred Martin, as he wrung his hands after throwing back the ball with which he and his chum, Bobby Blake, were having a little pitch...

Seeing that there was nothing to be gotten from their guide, the boys finally relapsed into an anxious silence, their eyes straining to pierce the curtain of snow that fell so t...

The fellow in the driver’s seat of the big automobile dropped his cigarette and half started from his seat as he heard Bobby’s words and saw him making for the fence.

There was a great celebration on the Rockledge campus that night in honor of the victory. Rules were relaxed and the boys were allowed to do just about as they chose. A great he...

The last weeks previous to the beginning of the summer vacation were busy ones for the boys. They had to prepare for final examinations, and for those who had shirked their work...

The Belden boys came in for their half, fuming at the lead that Rockledge had gained but not a bit discouraged. Ormsby gathered them about him and urged them on, and their roote...

“You see these books,” said Bobby, Billy and Fred and Mouser clustering round him eagerly while he spoke in a low voice. “Well, there’ll be no trouble getting them away from her...

It is safe to say that Bobby and his chums did not get very much sleep that night. The thought that they had a real chance of escape from the ship where they had been held priso...

Suddenly finding themselves tired of exploring their novel quarters and realizing that they were exhausted, the boys gathered skins together and laid them upon the floor of the...

The delight of the boys knew no bounds. They were up bright and early the following morning, and after warm thanks and farewells to their Eskimo hostess and her son, set off on...

“You’ve got to look out for those fellows, especially for that Lemming, Bobby,” warned Mouser. “Those eyes of his were like a rattlesnake’s when he got up from the ground. You h...

The situation grew worse, and it finally reached the place where the four boys were given almost no chance to talk together. As Captain Garrish had said, it was true that the sh...

At first they refused to believe it. The others besieged Bobby with questions, begging him to look—couldn’t it, perhaps, have fallen in the bottom of the boat? Oh, look! Look!

The Eskimo who had led Bobby to the cabin made the sick man as comfortable as possible with pillows propped behind his back, then, at a sign from the latter, he turned and left...

When Kapje returned he was accompanied by a number of other Eskimos who carried spears and a couple of queer looking boats which the boys afterward learned were made of animal s...

Billy was the first to break the portentous silence. “We don’t know where we’re going, but we’re on our way,” he chanted lugubriously. “It looks to me as though we are in a regu...

The Eskimos were the first to stir, and they got to their feet slowly, dazedly, as though waking from a hideous nightmare, not quite sure yet that they were actually alive and u...

As the morning wore on, Bobby realized that his fear of discovery by Captain Garrish was unfounded. The man continued to watch the boys closely, but if he had known of that secr...

A broad ray of sunshine came streaming into the hold and the four boys gave a shout of joy at the sight. Bobby made for the ladder that led up toward the hatchway, and the other...

The face of the bully wore an ugly scowl, and Bobby and his friends realized that they were in for trouble. However, it was not of their seeking, and there was no way out except...

The boys lost no time in hunting up the old Eskimo chief. He remembered them immediately and seemed glad to see them. He made the walrus do tricks for them and talked freely eno...

Never as long as they lived would the boys forget that all-day trip. The intense cold nipped at their faces, trying to reach its icy fingers through the fur that covered them.

While they flung off the snow-covered great coats taken from the locker of Captain Garrish’s ship, the Eskimo woman ladled up great bowls full of the steaming stew and the two n...

Once back in his own quarters, Bobby tried to quiet his racing thoughts and think out some plan of action. If only he might talk to Fred and the other boys!

The two men rowed steadily for ten or fifteen minutes, conversing at intervals in a conversation plentifully besprinkled with rude jests. At the end of that time the rowing sudd...

For a time the boys were almost out of their heads with delight. Here was more wealth than they had ever seen or ever dreamed would be at their disposal. They were inclined to p...

The billboards advertising this particular circus had not been of a very modest or retiring description, but for once the show almost came up to the lurid praises sung so enthus...

Ten o’clock that night, and the boys were stealing silently to the spot where the longboat swung on creaking davits, rising and falling with the rise and fall of the ship.

Bobby had wandered up into the bow one day and had seated himself on the deck, with his back resting against a huge coil of rope. The motion of the vessel had almost lulled him...

Mooloo, who seemed a surly fellow and not at all like Kapje and his son, looked up at their entrance with a frown. He had been doing something mysterious to a sealskin, but now...