Category: Adventure
“She’s adrift!” he shouted. “Come on! Come on!” The bull swerved slightly and shot past Will marched ahead, carrying the torch It was coin—all coin! Then came the shining, silvery sides of a dozen shad “I think we’ll make it,” he said to himself Will and Reube bent their bodie...
WILL was but a few seconds in getting the necessary rope out of the cuddy. Then, taking an oar with him, he followed Reube as fast as he could run, casting wary eyes at the oily...
8. CHAPTER VII.DURING the next forenoon the _Dido_ and the pinkie were sailed up to their old berths in the creek. That night all the boats went out except the _Dido_, fading like ghosts into...
7. CHAPTER VI.IT was some minutes before either spoke. All they knew was that they were once more in the air and light. Then, with a start, Reube sat up and looked about him. He looked, of co...
5. CHAPTER IV.ACTING instantly on the impulse of an old sailor, Reube had sprung forward almost with the shock, and started to haul down the mainsail in order to relieve the strain. The next...
2. CHAPTER I.THE road from Frosty Hollow to Westcock, after climbing the hill by the red creek and passing Mrs. Carter’s yellow cottage, ran through a piece of dark and ancient fir woods. Wi...
9. CHAPTER VIII.REUBE and Will did not go shad fishing the next night, after all. A fierce sou’wester blew up toward evening, and drifting for shad was out of the question. Every boat was made...
6. CHAPTER V.IN their eagerness they forgot to look around before entering the cave. They forgot to look at the tide, which had already turned and was creeping swiftly over the treacherous l...
13. CHAPTER XII.Will was already noosing a couple of ropes. The _Dido_ was brought alongside the rolling carcass, and after a great deal of difficulty the nooses were made fast to its head and...
3. CHAPTER II.THE short cut which Reube was taking across the fields and marshes was calculated to diminish by a good half mile the distance which separated him from his beloved boat. But it...
4. CHAPTER III.“Now, old man, what’s the matter with you?” queried Will, reprovingly. “Do you suppose the _Dido’s_ gone? Why, you old chump, we’ll take one of the other boats and go after her....
10. CHAPTER IX.“That fits in with my own ideas exactly, Reube! There’s some alien streak in that Gandy’s blood that makes him more likely to knife you in the back than fight you to your face;...
11. CHAPTER X.WILL lost no time in getting off his clothes. He felt hot and fishy, and the cool, tawny ripples allured him. Reube tested the anchor to see that the _Dido_ held fast, and then...
12. CHAPTER XI.SLOWLY the tide crept in upon the spit, and the strip of sand grew narrower. Those grimly patrolling black fins drew nearer and nearer as the bar became smaller. The gusts of wi...
1. CHAPTER XIII.“She’s adrift!” he shouted. “Come on! Come on!” The bull swerved slightly and shot past Will marched ahead, carrying the torch It was coin—all coin! Then came the shining, silve...