The River Motor Boat Boys on the Ohio; Or, The Three Blue Lights

The four boys, Clayton Emmett, Alex Smithwick, Jule Shafer and Cornelius Witters, gathered about the motor, looking with disgust at its motionless cranks. The boat had been turn...

After the departure of Alex and Case, Clay and Jule continued their efforts to get the motor into working order. In the meantime, however, they kept a sharp lookout for the appr...

“Trouble!” exclaimed the merchant. “They come here and strip my shelves. They bring a howling mob of river rats into the town and take everything they can get their hands on.”

Left alone on board the _Rambler_, Jule lay for a long time behind the gunwale watching the _Hawk_. He saw Clay surrounded by a group of ill-looking fellows as soon as he gained...

“I’ll tell you right now,” Alex declared, panting and out of breath in his efforts to keep pace with the long stride of the new-found friend, “that there isn’t anything the matt...

“I don’t believe,” Jule said, throwing himself off his bunk in a moment, “that the _Rambler_ has made successful trips on the Amazon, the Columbia, the Colorado, the Mississippi...

“You confounded idiot!” shouted Mike, catching his companion by the arm. “Do you want to bring that police boat over here inside of two minutes? If you do, just fire that gun.”

“Where do you think the bulldog came from?” asked Hank as, with Alex and Case, he stood watching the dog capering about in the joy of victory. “He seems to know you boys pretty...

The entire situation on board the _Rambler_ had not been observed from the shore. The boys and the mountaineer had seen only Teddy in the center of the stage, so they had natura...

“Then they’re there yet,” Alex insisted, vaulting to the top of the gunwale. “They must be there yet, for no boat could disappear so quickly. I’ll take a look at them myself.”

“It’s all right!” Clay announced to the boy. “They’ve just got in a big stock of gasoline, and we’ll fill all the tanks and buy a few red cans on the side.”

Alex could make no headway swimming in the direction of the boat, for the creatures he had hooked were pulling him, iron and all, toward the Indiana shore. Now and then the boy...

“There are numerous odd-shaped islands in the Mississippi and Ohio rivers. You can see easily enough how this peculiar formation came about,” Clay observed, “some forest fire bu...

Alex did not remain long in the cabin of the _Rambler_ after Clay’s departure. His two chums were seated on the prow of the boat, and the lights were out, so he had little diffi...

“Just let me get up on the prow with a gun!” Alex exclaimed, pulling himself out of a puddle of water on the deck. “I want to get a couple of shots at those devils on board that...

The stranger looked at the boys sharply as they stood listening to the noises on shore. There was an expression of displeasure on his face as he noted how watchful they were.

Sailing swiftly down the stream in the early morning, Alex was not at all in bad humor as he regarded the general situation. He figured that he could very readily elude the coal...

While Alex was having his troubles with the two gangs of outlaws, and while Jule and Case were asleep in a thicket at the cove, Clay was pushing his way through a heavy undergro...

“That’s right,” Alex declared, dodging away from one of the men who made an attempt to seize him. “That’s right! These whiskey boat men never saw this craft until last night. We...

If there had been any extra hair at the top of the old negro’s pate it must have stood horizontal at that moment, for Teddy shambled up to the bulldog and began a series of boxi...

Left alone in the thicket at the head of the cove, Case and Jule waited for some time for the appearance of Captain Joe. While not actually afraid of any attack upon themselves...

While the two boys laid their plans by the embers of the camp-fire, Peck and his companion, the watchers, moved stealthily over in their direction and came within sound of their...

Unmindful of the peril which they had so fortunately escaped, Case and Jule made their way through the forest in quick time and finally came to a point from which the camp at th...

“If he tries to get away, tie him up with a rope!” whispered Jule. “Every time that boy gets out of sight, he lands in trouble up to his long ears!”

“Yes,” exclaimed Jule, fairly dancing up and down in his excitement, “and that little monkey in the prow is Alex! He’s the one that’s holding up the three blue lights! Now where...