Children's Book Series

The Boy Scouts on a Submarine

A great barking of dogs broke the silence of the sleepy summer afternoon. Elinor Pomeroy laid down her knitting and slowly walked around the house. The barking of the three big dogs had been on a joyous tone. A young man was racing up the long front drive, the dogs leaping and...

Chapters

16. Chapter 16

Porky and Beany sat perfectly still, staring with round, bulging eyes at the Colonel. They did not speak. They just sat there and thought and stared, and stared and thought agai...

12. Chapter 12

It seemed to the boys as though they could never tire of the novelty and charm of the open sea. By Sunday they had explored the perfect little ship Firefly from stem to stern. T...

14. Chapter 14

Captain Greene went to the door and gave a quick order. A couple of men got them out of their rags and into fresh pajamas. Then a light meal came in.

11. Chapter 11

The Leffingwell cook had prepared a regular crackerjack--no, a Leffingwell dinner; and Mr. Leffingwell begged the boys to say little about their adventures until they had had so...

15. Chapter 15

"Well!" said Porky 'sighing, "that's how things went until to-day--or I guess it was yesterday, wasn't it? Anyhow, I can't tell just when anything happened. All I know is that e...

4. Chapter 4

You would not have thought they were thinking at all as they sat on the broad brick steps, holding their chins in their right hands, left hands twisting their puttee lacers. The...

5. Chapter 5

Loudly, earnestly Porky Sneezed. It was so sudden, so unexpected that he could not control or disguise it. It came out, seemingly filling the little plant house. To Porky it sou...

3. Chapter 3

"If it hadn't been for you and your rock, young man, I would have been a dead man probably," said the Colonel solemnly. "I wish we had the car number."

1. Chapter 1

A great barking of dogs broke the silence of the sleepy summer afternoon. Elinor Pomeroy laid down her knitting and slowly walked around the house. The barking of the three big...

7. Chapter 7

After all it was a sort of lark to be off duty and go bumming around the fairgrounds without a single thing to worry about except where the formula was. Certainly if the Wolf ha...

8. Chapter 8

The Wolf, walking as though bent entirely on sightseeing, yet covering ground rapidly, led the way through the busiest part of the city, and into a quieter residential section,...

9. Chapter 9

When the Wolf, holding fast to Asa's shoulder, slipped into the shadows of the Park, Beany raced across the asphalt drive and knelt beside the little Weasel. He lay a crumpled,...

10. Chapter 10

The boys will never know how long it took to drive to the street and number given them by the poor Weasel. Arriving at the corner where the old brown stone house stood looking t...

6. Chapter 6

Over in the Hospital, the dimply nurse laid compresses on the swollen ankle of Captain DuChassis. She found her patient wakeful, and worn with pain. The leg was badly wrenched,...

2. Chapter 2

A week went by. In the jail a sullen prisoner, always swearing his innocence, lay awaiting the outcome of Lester's injury, while day after day he lay tossing on his bed, delirio...

13. Chapter 13

But instead they saw a couple of boats put off--motor-boats that cut their way furiously through the water and soon reached them. A word of explanation from the Captain of the F...