Category: Children & Young Adult Reading

The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers

Jumping up so suddenly that the checker-board went in one direction, the table in another, while the checkers rolled to every corner of the little volunteer life-saving station house, Eric Swift made a leap for the door. Quick as he was to reach the boat, he was none too soon,...

Chapters

13. Chapter 13

Following on the information given by the captain of the Norwegian steamer, which had so nearly been looted by wreckers, the _Miami_ started on a search for the decoy light that...

8. Chapter 8

When, the following morning, Eric awoke to consciousness in his bunk on the _Itasca_ he found himself the hero of the hour. He had been well-liked in his class before, but his d...

4. Chapter 4

Knowing that his father had spent many years on Tillamook Rock, Eric was eager to see every nook and cranny of the building, and he importuned his uncle to go with him over the...

6. Chapter 6

The last words of the old keeper, "Goodness don't lay in tryin' to be a hero, but jest in plain bein' a man," rang through Eric's mind, many and many a day after, when, on his o...

3. Chapter 3

It was a happy awakening in the life-saving station the next morning, for both the rescued men were well on the road to recovery. Eric had intended to be the first to tell Wille...

7. Chapter 7

Three weeks after the rescue of the crew of the _City of Nipigon_, navigation on Lake Superior closed down for the winter. Although the work had been hard and, during the last m...

10. Chapter 10

"I've been wondering," said Eric to Homer, a few days after his rescue trip on the _Redondo_, "what we're going to do with all these natives. We can't take them back to the Katm...

12. Chapter 12

"Well, Eric," said Homer Tierre to his friend, as they stood together one evening a few days after the rescue of the survivors of the _Luckenback_, watching the phosphorescence...

2. Chapter 2

Jumping up so suddenly that the checker-board went in one direction, the table in another, while the checkers rolled to every corner of the little volunteer life-saving station...

5. Chapter 5

"Father! Father! What do you think?" cried Eric, bursting into the sitting room at breakfast one morning, a couple of weeks after his encounter with his young mining friend, "I'...

9. Chapter 9

The whaler's story of the great Overland Expedition set Eric questioning about the work of the Coast Guard with the reindeer. He learned that, partly as a result of his handling...

11. Chapter 11

"Looks to me as though we're going to have a ripsnorter for Christmas," said Eric to his friend, Homer, the day before the festive season. "If the sea gets much higher, Cookie w...

1. Chapter 1