Jack Ranger's Gun Club; Or, From Schoolroom to Camp and Trail

"Well," remarked Mr. Swaim, when the aeroplane had been put back in the shed, "I'd like to have you boys come to dinner with me. We don't have anything very elaborate in camp----"

"I hope we don't meet any other wagon," thought Jack. He gave one glance at the girl at his side. He could see that she was pale, but there was no sign of fear in her brown eyes...

"Why did you run away?" inquired Sam, while Nat looked closely at Andy. The man had a good-natured, smiling face, and Nat's spirits began to rise. He did not think they had much...

"Hu! Think I can't beat Jack Ranger?" replied Dock with a sneer as he began putting more oil on the oarlock sockets. "I could beat him rowing with one hand."

In another moment he was climbing up the thin trunk of the hickory that served to hold Budge Rankin suspended. Then Will's plan was apparent. As he climbed up farther, his weigh...

These were some of the expressions the excited lads shouted as they surged forward to look at the spot where Dock had disappeared. A string of bubbles and some swirling eddies w...

"Look here!" burst out Nat. "If you hurt Will, or any of us, we'll have you arrested. Hoptoads and hornets! but you haven't any right to treat us this way."

But at that moment Jack Ranger fairly leaped from behind the clump of trees where he and Nat Anderson stood, and running after the three mean lads who were carrying the struggli...

"Vot is dis?" he murmured as he read. "Ha! dot is der best news vot I haf heard in a long time. Ach! now I gets me efen mid dot wienerwurst of a Socrat! I vill vanquishes him!"

"It's a message from Mr. Gabel, Bill Williams' guardian," replied Jack. "He says he has a clue that Bill has gone out to a settlement on the Big Horn River, in Montana, and he w...

"Got to get something Aunt Angelina sent me," replied our hero. "I got a letter saying she had forwarded me a package by express. It's got some heavy underwear in it for one thi...

Budge handed out packages of gum, which he was seldom without, and soon all the travelers were busily engaged in chewing it. In a measure it relieved their thirst at once, and t...

The old sled seemed to be in fairly good condition. It was roughly but strongly made, as it had to be to stand dragging over the mountain trails. The boys hauled it to the edge...

The horses reached a place that was not quite so steep, and managed to stop sliding, running for a short distance. Then the slipping began again, but both animals were like cats...

"No, I don't cal'alate we'll meet up with any bandits," answered Mabel's father with a smile. "If we do--well, Tanker Ike and I are pretty well heeled, I guess," and he lifted f...

The train soon began to move forward again, but it had to proceed slowly, as it was on the wrong track, and a flagman had to precede it to prevent a collision. It was tiresome t...

"No, I hardly think that. I believe those men have something to conceal, and would order back any one who they thought would discover their secret. They ordered us back before J...

"Yes," replied the newcomer. "I heard that same noise about a week ago. I was in a lumber camp, to which I had worked my way, and one night, just about this time, we all heard t...

"I've been reading up about hunting big game," went on Jack, "and I asked my father if I could go the first chance I got. He said I could, and now I've got the chance."

It seemed that this was the only thing to do. To remain on the sled, as it plunged into the black water, might mean that they would be drawn down into the depths, never to come...

For a few moments after Jack's disappearance into the burning school, the spectators, pupils and teachers hardly knew what to do or say. The thick volumes of smoke that rolled o...

"I think so," replied the automobilist. "Dr. Mead says the hurt on his head doesn't amount to much, and that he is suffering mostly from shock. He'll be all right in a day or so."

"How did you get away out here? The last I heard of you was when I received a letter and a telegram from your guardian, asking me to send you home if I saw you."

Jack did not know what to do. He and Will had to stand there and watch their chums rolling and slipping down the mountain-side, with the bear, in its death struggle, slowly gain...

Long Gun's example and his fright were contagious, to a certain degree. Seeing him run, Bony and Sam turned also, for they thought the Indian heard or recognized some danger. Th...

"Me show," answered Long Gun with a grin. Then he pointed to where he and Budge, the day before, had constructed, inside the living tent, a small fireplace of stones and earth....

"Bill's run away. Listen and I'll read the letter to you. It says: 'A few days ago my ward, William Williams, returned from Washington Hall, greatly to my regret. He explained t...

"Well, I had an object in it," explained Jack. "I wanted him to do me a favor, and he did it--after I'd let him tell me how, single-handed, he captured a lot of Confederates. I...

"That's what I said, Nat. Long Gun was right, and so was Tanker Ike. It's a heap sight easier to get lost in here than I thought. Why, every one of these peaks looks just like t...

"I saw he was. He'd have jumped right on me, too, and that would have been the finish of yours truly. My, but that was a crack shot of yours."

"Telephone for the town fire department!" cried Dr. Mead, who had been apprised of the fire. He, like all the others, was out in the storm, with a few clothes he had hastily don...

Jack glanced at Nat. The lad was pale, and Jack himself began to feel the effect of the poisonous gas. But he made up his mind he would not give in.

There was a moment's pause after Jack's announcement, then, as one, the assembled lads bowed to Will, or, as he was to be more affectionately called, Bill. He blushed with pleas...

"Hello, Dock, I'm glad to see you out of the hospital," remarked Jack one morning about a week later, when his boating rival was walking down the campus. "You had quite a time o...

"Well, not to-day," answered Jack. "But I will sooner or later. I believe something happened here which has to do with that queer disturbance we have heard several times. What i...