Mark Tidd in the Backwoods

It all started just before school was out. One afternoon when I got home mother showed me a letter from Uncle Hieronymous, who lives in the woods back of Baldwin, on the Middle...

Most likely we would have slept till noon that first morning at uncle’s place, but he didn’t let us. Uncle had an idea that day began as soon as you could see to get around with...

“Well,” says he, “if we’re ahead we can always t-try to escape by p-paddlin’, but if we’re behind and run on to ’em sudden, what can we do? We can’t paddle up-stream against thi...

You may think it would be an easy thing to sneak out of Uncle Hieronymous’s cabin without being seen. To anybody who doesn’t know just how things were it would seem as if there...

The third of our days on the river wasn’t what you could call exciting. It started out hot and got hotter. It wasn’t so bad for Collins and me, but Mark Tidd and Jiggins _fried_...

So you can understand just what happened that night I will tell you as carefully as I can just how our camp lay and where everything in and around it was. Then you’ll be able to...

We sat there in the boat about a hundred feet from shore and watched Collins and the fat man floundering around on the bank. We could just see them, but gradually it got lighter...

It was pretty hard to wait five minutes before I started, and it was exciting, too. We were so still it made me nervous, but we just couldn’t talk, for we were listening—listeni...

From now on so many things happened, one right onto the heels of the other, that it’s a little confusing to remember them all and get them in the right places. It doesn’t seem a...

We needed a good rest, so we took one. I couldn’t get to sleep, but Mark found no trouble about it at all. He can always eat and sleep. We had been up a long time. It seemed day...

When we got home Uncle Hieronymous was laying flat on his back by the side of the stream, with his eyes shut and the pleasantest smile on his face. He looked like everything he...

There we were in a town we never saw before, with no place to go and no idea what to do next. Ludington seemed to us like a pretty big town after Wicksville, but we didn’t let t...

Maybe you’ve never noticed it, but when anything dangerous or exciting or unexpected happens your body does something or other without your knowing what it is going to do and wi...

Two men were sitting on the steps, and uncle, tilted back in a chair, was facing them. Nobody seemed to be saying anything as we came up. When we were right close uncle turned a...

It looked pretty much to me like we were giving up—sort of deserting the ship. There we had been where we could actually _see_ uncle and Jiggins and Collins, and we were going s...

The next day we didn’t do much but fuss around. Plunk and Tallow tried fishing for trout with angleworms, but they got only one, and he was a rainbow. Mark found a shady spot an...

It was time for us to go to bed, but Mark called us into the dining-room to a council of war. We sat down around the table, with Mark at the head. He started talking almost in a...

The rope was in a coil, which made it easy to throw. I sent it sailing over to Mark, who caught it and went to work making a lasso out of it. He was as deliberate as if we were...

The hotel-keeper called us at six o’clock. There wasn’t any need for a second call, and we hurried down and had some eggs and salt pork and potatoes and coffee and bread and but...

For a minnit I was scared, and even Mark Tidd looked kind of blue around the gills, as dad says. But then I thought Ole and Jerry and Mr. Hogtoter wouldn’t let Collins and Jiggi...

It was easy to find Mr. Macmillan. Everybody seemed to know him. His office was up over the bank. When we got there he was in, but at first he didn’t recognize us.