The Mail Carrier

THE horseman came in sight a moment later, and Dan looked at him in the greatest amazement. It was his brother David; but what a change had come over him since Dan last saw him...

IF the dumb brute at his side had been a human being, capable of understanding and appreciating his feelings, Bob would not have parted from him with greater reluctance. But the...

“MORE’N a hundred and sixty-four dollars, an’ it made a wad as big as that thar!” said Dan Evans, looking at his wrist as he hurried through the woods. He opened his eyes and fa...

“I WONDER if they never saw a white boy and a spotted horse before,” thought Bob, who could not bear to have any one stare at him. “I hope they will know me the next time they s...

THE boys had no trouble in following the road that led to the little collection of houses known as White River Landing. The ten miles did not seem very long to them, for George...

“THE jig is up!” shouted one of the engineers through the trumpet, and his voice sounded as if he were half choked. “Impossible to stay here any longer. Too much smoke. Can’t br...

THE boys, warned by their recent narrow escape, sat on the bank in gloomy silence and watched the Sam Kendall as she was slowly consumed before their eyes. They noticed that her...

“I don’t know, for you have not yet told me just what is the matter. Now let us hear the whole story from the beginning,” said Don, seating himself on the wharf beside the weepi...

“O, no,” answered the young pilot. “I am going to stand my regular watch to-night. Mr. Black is at the wheel, I suppose? Mr. Scanlan, this is Bob Owens, the boy who saved my life.”

“I DECLARE I never thought of that before,” repeated Bob, after he had spent a quarter of an hour in thinking the matter over. As was generally the case when he found himself in...

THE shame and mortification which Bob and Lester experienced after being detected in their attempt to break into the negro cabin, were of short duration. They gradually recovere...

Dan Evans, who was trudging along the dusty road, with his eyes fastened thoughtfully on the ground, and his mind so wholly given up to meditation that he did not know what was...

“Yes, sir,” said Don, his countenance brightening, and his eye lighting up with excitement, “there’s something there. I hope it is a bear, for if it should turn out to be nobody...

BOB hardly knew what to do with himself. He ran down the lane at the top of his speed until he was out of breath, and then seated himself on a log in a fence corner to think ove...

“YES, sur, that’s jest what that mean Dan o’ mine done,” shouted Godfrey, swinging his arms about his head. “I didn’t find it out until this mornin’, an’ then I cut a big hickor...

“I had it in my hands not ten minutes before we left the boat,” replied Bob, hardly able to keep back his tears. “It was safe, too, when I came off the gang-plank, for I took pa...

THE young hunters had advanced nearly to the end of the path and were now standing within a few feet of the clearing in which Godfrey had built his lean-to, and which had been t...