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قراءة كتاب Skyrider
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SKYRIDER
BY B. M. BOWER
with frontispiece by
ANTON OTTO FISCHER
1919
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE--A Poet without Honor
CHAPTER TWO--One Fight, Two Quarrels, and a Riddle
CHAPTER THREE--Johnny Goes Gaily Enough to Sinkhole
CHAPTER FOUR--A Thing that Sets like a Hawk
CHAPTER FIVE--Desert Glimpses
CHAPTER SIX--Salvage
CHAPTER SEVEN--Finder, Keeper
CHAPTER EIGHT--Over the Telephone
CHAPTER NINE--A Midnight Ride
CHAPTER TEN--Signs, and No One to Read Them
CHAPTER ELEVEN--Thieves Ride Boldly
CHAPTER TWELVE--Johnny's Amazing Run of Luck Still Holds its Pace
CHAPTER THIRTEEN--Mary V Confronts Johnny
CHAPTER FOURTEEN--Johnny Would Serve Two Masters
CHAPTER FIFTEEN--The Fire that Made the Smoke
CHAPTER SIXTEEN--Let's Go
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN--A Rider of the Sky
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN--Flying Comes High
CHAPTER NINETEEN--"We Fly South"
CHAPTER TWENTY--Men Are Stupid
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE--Mary V Will not be Bluffed
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO--Luck Turns Traitor
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE--Dreams and Darkness
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR--Johnny's Dilemma
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE--Skyrider "Has Flew"!
B. M. BOWER'S NOVELS
SKYRIDER
CHAPTER ONE
A POET WITHOUT HONOR
I'll part the clouds like foam.
I'll brand each star with the Rolling R,
And lead the Great Bear home.
On Venus I will call.
If she greets me fair as I ride the air,
To meet her I will stall.
Then volplane, bank, and land.
Then if she'll smile I'll stop awhile,
And kiss her snow-white hand.
I'll drink the Dipper dry.
Then say, "Hop in, and we'll take a spin,
For I'm a rider of the sky."
Mary V flipped the rough paper over with so little tenderness that a corner tore in her fingers, but the next page was blank. She made a sound suspiciously like a snort, and threw the tablet down on the littered table of the bunk house. After all, what did she care where they floated—Venus and Johnny Jewel? Riding the sky with Venus when he knew very well that his place was out in the big corral, riding some of those broom-tail bronks that he was being