The treasure of Mushroom Rock

One windy night in April, some five-and-twenty years ago, the young moon, peeping now and then between the scudding wisps of cloud, seemed to be maintaining a careful watch upon...

Some six months previous to our discovery of the secret chamber, it happened that all the boys in our class at school had been taken with a desire to become archers,--the result...

There was a tinge of red in the eastern sky when two very weary and very hungry boys came tramping into Southampton and made their way down to the docks. Among the innumerable v...

Little did we realise the magnitude of the task we were undertaking, when, having first written home to explain our reasons for this sudden change of plan, we betook ourselves t...

At one of the little stations at which we stopped, a man boarded the train, and taking a seat opposite at once fell into conversation with us. He appeared to be familiar with th...

First of all there were the animals to be seen to. Jack already had a horse for himself,--Toby,--and he had besides a pair of stout little mules for packing purposes, one of whi...

For several days we marched steadily northward over a rolling country, camping at first upon streams which flowed south-westward to the Great Salt Lake, and latterly upon others...

An eastward ride of several days carried us to the neighbourhood of the Grand Teton, a splendid mountain, whose height, isolation, and conspicuous outline have made it a landmar...

Jack was right, both in his conclusion that our crooked course had carried us into the geyser basin and in his promise that we should see marvellous things. Next morning began a...

We were far from laughing now. The calm, everyday tone in which Squeaky had uttered the words, “I shall shoot the boys,” together with what we knew of his character, convinced u...

It was all very well for Squeaky to recommend us to go to bed; we had something else to do first, namely, to talk over the situation. The possibility of escape was naturally the...

Jack, when he rode away towards Bozeman the morning before, had no sooner placed the hill between us and himself than he turned short to his left and galloped off in a new direc...

“But look here, Jack,” Percy persisted. “We are given leave to stay if there is a good reason for staying; and surely we have a good enough reason now. When we set out from Golc...

Glancing at his companion, Percy, rather to his alarm, saw that Jack’s face was quite pale, his eyes wide open and staring, and that, though the day was cool, the perspiration w...

Three shivering, miserable mortals were we, as we stood there in our wet clothes contemplating the impassable rock which barred the way. Two badly scared mortals were Percy and...

Heavily laden with a week’s provisions, our rifles, two blankets each, the axe, and last, though by no means least in importance, the little bags of gold-washings, and leaving a...