The Boy Aeronauts' Club; or, Flying for Fun

Just before dawn, the mournful sound of a conch shell, blown by the capacious lunged Jerry, aroused Bob, Tom and Mac, and the camp boys tumbled out just in time to give a welcom...

The flight in the _Anclote_ to the swamp land for a glimpse of the famed Everglades and a possible sight of the Secret City of the Seminoles (an excursion which nearly ended wit...

As Hal delivered this message, Captain Joe explained his plans. The shallow hold of the _Three Sisters_ was crowded with freight. Her deck was already swept by the fast rising w...

When the disappointed jokers reached the camp, Jerry was found in the big tent, his head covered with a blanket, moaning and beseeching mercy from the spirit of the incensed Bla...

So intense was the interest in the new plan to purchase an aeroplane that, when Friday came around, the opening of the camp on Perdido Bay was again postponed. The United States...

Neither Mrs. Balfour nor Tom’s mother took the time at that exciting moment to explain to the astonished Bob how Mrs. Balfour happened to be in Mrs. Allen’s home. But it was eas...

The _Escambia_ met the waves like a stubborn bull dog. As each new one broke over her, the laboring oarsmen were deluged. Bob and Jerry took the bow seat and caught up the idle...

As a matter of fact, Tom was perhaps more apprehensive than Mac. But, one thing reassured him. The start would be over shoal water, in which, if they got a ducking, they would n...

It was about two weeks before the Easter vacation would come on, and Hal and Tom would be free to start for Anclote Island in the _Three Sisters_. But the services of Captain Jo...

seaward. But, taking up the slow, long stroke, they began to get their second wind. There were no means of knowing whether the _Escambia_ was having any effect on the steamer. B...

In the early morning, Bob and his mother had an animated conference. Mrs. Balfour forgave Bob’s late return only after she heard the story of his kidnaping by Tom Allen and Hal...

One could almost hear the creaking of knee and elbow joints when the five boys turned out the next morning. Despite Hal’s prediction, this was at an early hour. For, while the s...

Even now the _Anclote_, as the Boy Aeronauts’ Club aeroplane soon came to be known, may be considered old-fashioned. But when Bob Balfour and Tom Allen bought her and shipped he...

Hal accepted Mrs. Balfour’s invitation to luncheon, and Jerry hastened away to eat at a restaurant. But, his weakness getting the better of him, the colored boy reached the scho...

Tom, Hal and Bob went ashore with the journalist, promising that they would return immediately after breakfast in the morning. Bob reached his boarding house just before one o’c...

“He did, did he?” broke in Tom. “I only wish he knew enough to fry ham. Jerry is ouah dish washah, crab fishah, frog catchah, watah carriah, camp sweepah, boat bailah――are you a...

Although only mid-February, the sun was far too warm for Bob’s Chicago blizzard clothes. His mother decided to buy him part of his summer outfit at once. It didn’t take long to...

The lower end of Palafox Street in Pensacola, Florida, ends in a busy shipping and fish wharf. On each side of this are to be found, always, scores of sailing vessels and a jam...

When Tom Allen swung open the door, Bob saw that he was in a home of refinement. On the walls, hung several old oil paintings; a wide, doorless opening led directly into a littl...

“Theah was a pen on one side of the island that I hadn’t looked in because I thought it meant pigs. When I got to thinkin’, I knew it wasn’t pigs. So I went to have a look. Did...