The Safety First Club fights fire

Sam Parker was studying under difficulties. His intentions were of the best; his industry, as a rule, was proof against distractions. This day, though, there was something in th...

The club had come into existence in the most natural fashion imaginable. That is, a little group of boys who liked one another had gathered about Sam Parker, had reached a simpl...

Plainfield High School, like most other schools, had its politics. There were, of course, the usual rivalries between the classes; then there were the likes and dislikes of vari...

Of the club there responded to Sam’s call Poke and Step, the Shark, Tom Orkney and Herman Boyd. The Trojan was not at home. On the whole, Sam did not regret the fact that Walker...

For years Lon had taken a very keen interest in the fortunes and misfortunes of Sam and his friends, had served as their confidant and counselor, and had shared in some of their...

It was nearly a mile from the council rock to the road on which the club was to meet Lon Gates on his return from the Ridge; and as the afternoon was well advanced the boys made...

“Yep--that’s my reg’lar line. But I got ambitious and wanted to try my luck with one of them chug-chugs. So we settled a trade, we did, and t’other party showed me how to set he...

“It was the way things worked, sir--made me seem to say what I didn’t mean to say. And it was the same with the Trojan--with Walker, that is. Both of us were tangled, and twiste...

Afterward the club was agreed that many things might have happened differently, had it not been for the affair of the class secretary. But the affair took place, and in its effe...

It meant war. The result of the class meeting was so accepted by both the club and its opponents; and though Sam speculated long and earnestly on the reasons for the sudden enmi...

Of a Saturday, bright and early, Sam and his followers set out for the lake. Only Poke and Step were missing, both having pleaded their exceedingly pressing duties as constructo...

Sam laid before his friends the story of Zorn’s curious proposal, but said nothing of the manner of his parting with the adversary. Not that he was disposed to forget the treach...

The boys of the club stretched themselves out, very much at their ease, with the glowing embers of a camp-fire in the center of their circle. The tent was pitched and made secur...

The camp at the lake very quickly proved its value to Sam and his friends. It gave them a place of resort, an occupation. Poke and Step continued to be absorbed in the construct...

Orkney’s battle with Scrub Payne made a great stir in the school. There were some evidences of a change in the popular temper, which might be taken to bear out Poke’s view that...

All he had proposed was a sort of “dock trial”--to use an expression he had once employed in talking with Sam; but now, to his bewilderment and alarm, he was going to sea, so to...

Poke, as it happened, had been catapulted into a tableau, so to speak, in which Zorn and Hagle figured. Apparently, the noisy approach of the Saracen had interrupted Zorn in the...

It occurred to Poke, subsequently, that his appearance on the scene produced upon Zorn and Hagle an effect even more marked than might be accounted for by the extraordinary mann...

Ever since Lon had recited the tale of Old Man Freeman’s William Trout he had been much importuned by the boys for information about the stream in which the big fish lived and g...

It was not a thin haze now, but a blurring gray curtain, half concealing the woods before which it hung. A pungent odor filled the air, which had, too, a curiously irritating, s...

Tired as he was, Sam was sleeping badly. He was dreaming, and the dream was peculiarly annoying; for it was very like a repetition of the day’s events, enacted over and over aga...

It had been shown that by concentrating effort the boys could check the fire for a comparatively few yards; but it was just as clear that such a break in the line of its advance...

Step’s long legs carried him over the ground at a great rate, but Poke did not fall far behind, when the chums started to rouse the people of the settlement near the pavilion. T...

When Sam and the Shark plunged into the brush, it was with full belief that they were close upon the trail of the fugitive. Supposedly, too, each had heard the same sounds. It w...

Sam, the Shark and Hagle made for the lake shore. This was not so much because of any far-seeing, definite plan, as because this was the line of least resistance, so to speak, a...

There was no waste of time in explanations while the rescuing craft drove shoreward, or while the four were scrambling aboard. Then Step and Poke backed away from the beach, not...

In twenty-four hours the big fire had burned itself out. A smart thunder shower, followed by a soaking drizzle, breaking the long drought, helped to check it; just as the valian...