Teddy and the Mystery Deer

You might have thought he was inquiring how Teddy liked the taste of his finger. But anyone who has flown model airplanes could tell that Teddy was just testing the wind.

“That’s so,” Teddy agreed. “We may have to dodge into some tough places, looking for my lost plane. It’s swell of you fellows to come and help me,” he added.

Teddy Benson arose and brushed the dry, brown pine-needles off his clothes. Then he looked back into the gully and made sure his white-winged airplane was still in sight. It was...

When Lucy Benson’s brother told her she couldn’t watch him and his chums race their toy, model airplanes, the little girl felt sad for a few moments. Then her spirits rose as sh...

Though Margie and Lucy ran fast, carrying the toy planes, they had a chance to look back to see what had frightened them. They both looked at the same time and Margie said:

Teddy Benson and his two chums were so surprised, for a moment, at hearing the ordering voice that they made no move to obey. They assumed, of course, the order was for them. Th...

Fatty Nolan, whose rapid-fire talk had taken Teddy and the others by surprise, raced toward a man who was crossing one end of the meadow into the woods. The man had a rope, as t...

Teddy’s father was puzzled. He leaned on the handle of the lawn mower. He looked at Mrs. Traddle. Then he looked toward the house where Teddy and Lucy were at breakfast.

Hurrying at his usual fast pace, as if to keep up with his fast thoughts and talk, the fat lad ran after a man of whom Teddy and his chums had only obtained a glimpse.

Surprise, for a few seconds, kept the boys from saying a word. Teddy, himself, was not only astonished, but the breath was somewhat jolted out of him so he could not have said a...

Somehow, Margie and Lucy did not speak of the mysterious deer to Nellie, the other girls or to Mrs. Watson. Lucy and Margie hurried away from the scene of the little accident as...

Old Mr. Crispen was never in very much of a hurry. He had been the cobbler, or shoemaker as most Oakdale folk called him, for many years. But Mr. Crispen no longer made shoes. H...

Forgotten for a time was the mysterious man with the lasso. The man who wore star heel plates could wait. What Teddy and his chums wanted to do now was to catch the mysterious d...

Teddy and his chums helped Mr. Crispen set the deer trap in Mrs. Traddle’s garden. The candy-store keeper watched them for a while, but whenever the bell on her store door jingl...

Just as Teddy Benson leaped over the fence and landed in Mrs. Traddle’s garden, to run toward the deer trap, the candy-store lady darted out of her back door and headed for the...

The escape of the animal from the cobbler’s cage so surprised Joe and Dick that at first they did not understand what Teddy had shouted. Even Mr. Crispen was startled.

Teddy darted toward the edge of the garden. There was no fence around it. He started to race after the deer. But the animal was so swift it had vanished in the woods before Tedd...

When the tomato patch had been weeded and the dirt hoed into small hills around the roots of each plant, Teddy and his chums were free to go deer hunting.

For the next two days the three boys, aided occasionally by the girls, made a search for the mystery deer. But though Teddy and his chums several times were sure they saw the tr...

Teddy and his chums set up their little night camp in a field near a small patch of woods and beside a small stream. The woods were just the beginning of the state park, Oak For...

For a few seconds Teddy and his chums did not know whether the big dog was a friend or enemy. Teddy had the thought that they might be camping on the ground of some farmer who k...