Captain Kodak

_IN the olden days people peered about in the world for the fountain of perpetual youth. Nowadays they are wiser. They find a hobby—an enthusiasm, by which the old are made youn...

Owen was called upon as the most experienced in new cameras to tell Edith and the rest all about the Wizard; to explain the focussing scale, which Dr. Hartel said Captain Kodak...

While the water overflowed from the bucket into the sink the three boys sat on some boxes that were stored in the room, and talked of the fire, and the camera, and picture-makin...

And Dobbs did come around in the morning. “You haven’t forgotten about Sporty, have you?” was the first thing he said to Allan. He seemed to have forgotten about the plates, but...

“Let’s take a walk,” said the policeman, holding the small boy and Pete each by the collar. “You walk ahead,” he said to Allan. “Do you mean that you are going to arrest _me_?”...

“Besides,” continued Owen, “McConnell was with us, and he would feel badly if he wasn’t counted in. He told me to-day his brother was going to give him money for a camera next S...

“Fifteen years!” Allan recalled the white face of the man at the police station. It was the first time that any one he had ever seen had been sent to prison. Fifteen years! It s...

“Oh, he knows that,” said Twink; but he spoke to the Indian as he was moving away, and Walking Dog shook hands with both boys, stiffly and silently, then walked majestically away.

“It’s the best we have, anyhow,” said Allan, his hand on the tiller. “I think any day is a lucky day when you can get away like this with a bright sky and plenty to eat on board...

But when they had turned the head of the _Arabella_ east to clear the point, and had made a half mile from the shore on this tack, the full force of the rising breeze became app...

Blickens was very talkative on the journey. It was evident that he wished to atone for that which had happened at Stonyshore; and Allan felt so little resentment for what had ha...

But McConnell, who was studying his finder, protested that he was all right. And he did make a successful shot with no more assistance than Allan’s one hand at his back—assistan...