Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
"And they piled three stones one on top of another to mark the place. The first was just a big field stone, the second was rough and flat and the third, which was at the top, was the kind called conglomerate. You know--all full of pebbles, like coarse gravel pressed into a mas...
"And they piled three stones one on top of another to mark the place. The first was just a big field stone, the second was rough and flat and the third, which was at the top, wa...
2. CHAPTER IIIt was a direct result of Gaines' tongue wagging much more loosely than reasonable discretion would have counseled, to say nothing of sound sense, that information concerning th...
3. CHAPTER IIIA number of plans for eluding Soapy Gaines and the watchful eyes of his two bosom friends did the Auto Boys formulate. None of them seemed quite satisfactory. A scheme to slip a...
4. CHAPTER IV"They're going to go soon, if they go at all. Likely would have started to-day, as MacLester said, if their machine hadn't played out," said Tom Pickton, when on this Monday eve...
5. CHAPTER VJubilant and expressive though it may have been, Paul Jones' "wow," was very far from being all the Auto Boys had to say concerning the telegram received. In general they shared...
6. lid. Ah, what savory smell was that! Chicken--roast chicken, and"Well, I guess maybe we're no wizards! No, we're no wizards--nothing like that at all," chirped Paul Jones in his peculiarly happy way. "No! Don't take a wizard to do these litt...
7. CHAPTER VI"Yes, sir, they have went. I don't know nothing else about it," spoke the young fellow employed as general utility man in Knight & Wilder's garage. His principal work consisted...
8. CHAPTER VIIThe cries for help which broke upon the quiet of the night, rousing the Auto Boys as they slept, they quickly answered. With what result has been told in the Sagersgrove item ap...
9. CHAPTER VIIIQuite likely it was because they were so completely engrossed with the intended search of the Ship woods--the main item in the plan they had discussed for many months, that the...
10. CHAPTER IXThe late afternoon sun shone with a softened light in the valley through which Wolf creek flowed dark and sluggish from the Ship woods. The stream itself looked very dark, indee...
11. CHAPTER XThe stable's one window, composed of two small panes of extremely dirty glass, admitted to the young gentlemen within a dingy light. The shed was empty, save for the dirt and li...
12. CHAPTER XIIt was with much growling and sleepy sulkiness that Soapy Gaines crawled down from his seat in the Roadster while Pickton and Fred were opening camp equipage and making ready fo...
13. CHAPTER XIIIt was Sunday morning in Camp Golden. The name had been bestowed by Paul, always fond of the high-sounding or romantic. And although David, with customary pessimism, proposed th...
14. CHAPTER XIIIPhil's "hello!" was none too cordial, but glad under any circumstances to meet someone from home, and quite overjoyed to show the Auto Boys that the Chosen Trio were on the spot...
15. CHAPTER XIVThe arrival of the Chosen Trio in Queensville did not occasion the excitement in that small city that at least Mr. Gaines had anticipated. Possibly there would have been a more...
16. CHAPTER XVHis remark was aimed at Paul Jones, fussing and shaking, pretending to be all in a shiver with the cold while he leaned half-dressed over the campfire. "Might wiggle a little mo...