Category: Adventure
It was a bright July morning, and its gladness was reflected in the faces of the throng that hurried to and fro, like an army of particularly busy ants, in the Boston and Lowell Depot.
It was a bright July morning, and its gladness was reflected in the faces of the throng that hurried to and fro, like an army of particularly busy ants, in the Boston and Lowell...
2. CHAPTER II.It was a merry party that assembled in the Windsor Station, Monday evening. No sooner had they found their places in the "Kamloops" than out they jumped again, and began promena...
3. CHAPTER III.I know you will want to hear from your children as often as possible, so I write to-day, for both Adelaide and myself, to tell you of our wanderings, and of the wonderful scenes...
4. CHAPTER IV.Thus far the trip had been free from special adventure beyond the ordinary happenings in the course of an extraordinary journey. But on the day following the departure from Banf...
5. CHAPTER V.When Randolph and his party came rushing with shouts of laughter from the woods, they were joined by Tom, who was in an unusually meek mood. Fred looked at him suspiciously, but...
6. CHAPTER VI."Why, it's less than six years old, Randolph. Yet it has a population of over fifteen thousand. Six years ago to-day there was a dense forest where these great brick and stone b...
7. CHAPTER VII."All ashore!" sung out Tom as the _Queen_ touched the wharf at Fort Wrangell, at nine o'clock the next morning. "Come on, all of you. We have four hours here, the captain says."
8. CHAPTER VIII.With only half his wits about him, and a vague remembrance of his experience the previous year, Tom sprang up hastily, crying out, "Is there a fire?" Then he saw his father's ex...
9. CHAPTER IX.On leaving the wharf, Baranov had led the way directly up through the settlement, past the Mission School, until he reached the very outskirts of the village, where, in a half-c...
10. CHAPTER X.It was Bessie who was speaking her thoughts aloud, as she leaned upon the rail of the good steamer _Queen_, and looked dreamily out over the blue water toward the mountains on t...
11. CHAPTER XI."It was pretty dark and lonesome up there, I can tell you," said Tom, having described his long tramp and the death of the bear. "The wind rose at about nine o'clock, and cut li...
12. CHAPTER XII."We have two whole days before us," said Kittie the next morning, as she promenaded up and down the deck with Fred, "and the steamer is going right over the same path we took in...
13. CHAPTER XIII.The voyage southward proceeded without special incident. "Glaciers" were gradually left behind, but "gulfs" and bays, channels and narrow passages were still a part of the progr...
14. CHAPTER XIV."Hurrah!" cried Tom, who had now fully recovered from his recent unpleasantness with the silver-tip. "Hurrah! Here we are in Cinnabar." He had jumped from the car, and was tappi...
15. CHAPTER XV."Home again, from a foreign shore!" sang the Percival Glee Club, as the mountain wagon rattled down a long hill, across a dusty plain, and whirled up to the front door of a grea...
16. CHAPTER XVI.I have entitled this chapter "Conclusion," because it seems necessary to have the last chapter of a book named in that way. But the author might as well have named it "Beginning...