Category: Adventure

Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line; Or, The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam

The sun glistened on scores of polished bayonets, as sturdy figures, clad in olive drab, which matched in hue the brown of the earth, sprang from their trenches and rushed forward.

Chapters

12. CHAPTER XII

Careful preparations had been made for this night raid. It was the constant effort of both sides, during the period of trench fighting, to get possession of facts which would al...

8. CHAPTER VIII

My readers may well guess that Ned, Bob and Jerry were glad to see the scientist. He was like part of their "own folks," and though they had many friends among their army chums,...

29. CHAPTER XXIX

Just how or why the two battalions became lost and surrounded in the Argonne Forest probably no one will ever know. It was probably a case of the commands rushing on irresistibl...

3. CHAPTER III

For a moment there was comparative silence in the big barrack building. It lasted while the little man was crossing the room and hurrying toward the big snake where it could be...

6. CHAPTER VI

Events were transpiring so rapidly for Ned, Bob and Jerry in the last few hours, that it was no wonder they were somewhat startled. Coming from strenuous bayonet practice to hea...

10. CHAPTER X

Stunned and bruised, the three chums and several of their comrades around them were incapable of action for a little while. Then, as Jerry raised himself from the ground, he hea...

23. CHAPTER XXIII

Watching him from the security of their trench, Ned, Bob, and Jerry, their comrades, and the officers on duty, could scarcely believe their eyes as they saw what had happened. Y...

30. CHAPTER XXX

Once more the desperate fighting was resumed. Ned, Bob, and Jerry, after a brief rest, were again thrown into the conflict after their rescue from the dense Forest of Argonne. T...

1. CHAPTER I

The sun glistened on scores of polished bayonets, as sturdy figures, clad in olive drab, which matched in hue the brown of the earth, sprang from their trenches and rushed forward.

17. CHAPTER XVII

Ned, Bob, and Jerry were stationed in a sector which was alternately defending the lines against the Germans and attacking them in that part of the country where the trend of th...

19. CHAPTER XIX

"Don't speak to the Hun!" some one called, and then, for the first time, Ned and Bob seemed to realize that the little man, with whom they had been on friendly terms at college,...

20. CHAPTER XX

So unexpected was the news given by the captured Boxwood Hall janitor that for a moment or two Ned and Bob could scarcely believe it. That the information, so much desired and s...

26. CHAPTER XXVI

"Don't go any further," went on the officer, who stood dominating the scene. "Some one secure that man, and then we'll dispose of the box. Take good care of him!" and he pointed...

11. CHAPTER XI

Every one who saw the heavy steel hat so neatly pierced by the swift bullet was impressed by the object lesson, as the lieutenant had intended all of them should be. But, someho...

5. CHAPTER V

Jerry breathed more freely, and so did his chums. Clearly if the professor had not seen the two girls he could not be in love with them. And the professor in love was something...

25. CHAPTER XXV

The three chums, standing in the wet and muddy trench, looked at one another as this significant remark was made. Bob either did not catch what was said, or did not understand,...

27. CHAPTER XXVII

"Because we can't leave. All furloughs have been stopped these last three days. We may go into action any minute. If the professor is in trouble we can't help him."

18. CHAPTER XVIII

Just how it happened that the Salvation Army worker had ventured into that place of death none knew, and none stopped to inquire. Probably the man, in his eagerness to serve, di...

13. CHAPTER XIII

Jerry and Ned both confessed, afterward, that the sinking feeling, which seemed to carry their hearts away down into their muddy shoes, was greater at the knowledge that Bob was...

14. CHAPTER XIV

Disappointment rendered the three chums incapable of action for the moment. They just stood and looked at the place where their little store of wood had been hidden. Now it was...

22. CHAPTER XXII

The smiling Red Cross nurse had no need to mention the name of the visitor. The boys knew him for Professor Snodgrass after that description, which could fit no one else. And th...

16. CHAPTER XVI

"That's long enough," returned Ned, with a grim laugh. "If this fellow who has tried to get me--or one of you--so often, runs true to form, he's done his last shooting. I know w...

24. CHAPTER XXIV

There seemed no doubt on the subject, at least in the minds of the three Motor Boys. Bob knew full well that he had left the treat of sweet things in the hole in the wall of his...

9. CHAPTER IX

The training Ned, Bob and Jerry went through in the French camp, though on a more intense scale and with greater attention to detail, was much like that which they had obtained...

2. CHAPTER II

Ned, Bob and Jerry paused a moment on the threshold of the barrack building they had been about to enter. From within came a sound of commotion, as if several persons were quick...

15. CHAPTER XV

Just what Ned was thinking of was not evident. He moved here and there amid the ruins of the ammunition automobile, picking up bits of wood until his arms could hold no more. It...

28. CHAPTER XXVIII

"Well, I reckon we get a rest now, don't we?" asked Bob of his two chums, as they were ordered to report to a certain point with others of their command.

21. CHAPTER XXI

Jerry Hopkins, with his two chums and some of the hospital patients who were able to move about, rushed toward the sound of the shouting and firing. Jerry's leg wound was healed...

4. CHAPTER IV

Jerry Hopkins stretched himself lazily and comfortably out on the grass under the shade tree where he and Bob and Ned had taken Professor Snodgrass for a little talk. They were...

7. CHAPTER VII

Noddy Nixon needs no introduction to my old readers. This rich and impudent lad had, more than once, done his best to injure the Motor Boys, and, with the plotting of Jack Pende...