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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Jack Winters' Campmates, by Mark Overton
Title: Jack Winters' Campmates
Author: Mark Overton
Release Date: January 13, 2010 [eBook #30958]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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JACK WINTERS’
CAMPMATES
BY
MARK OVERTON
MADE IN U. S. A.
M·A·DONOHUE·&·COMPANY
CHICAGO NEW YORK
Copyright 1919, by
The New York Book Co.
Made in U. S. A.
Here they knelt and waited and waited.
| CONTENTS | ||
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | A Great Streak of Luck | 11 |
| II. | Jack and His Mates in Camp | 19 |
| III. | The First Night Under Canvas | 27 |
| IV. | Taking a Look Around | 36 |
| V. | Toby’s Adventure | 45 |
| VI. | Signs of More Trouble | 54 |
| VII. | Prospecting for Pictures | 63 |
| VIII. | When the Cat Ruled the Roost | 72 |
| IX. | Back to the Woods Camp | 80 |
| X. | The Night Alarm | 89 |
| XI. | The Rascally Thief | 98 |
| XII. | Fisherman’s Luck | 107 |
| XIII. | The Man With the Pickax | 116 |
| XIV. | When the Sun Stood Still | 125 |
| XV. | Jack Lifts the Lid | 134 |
| XVI. | Storm-Bound | 144 |
| XVII. | The Prospectors | 151 |
| XVIII. | Inside the Enemy’s Lines | 160 |
| XIX. | The Coming of the Crisis | 168 |
| XX. | Out of the Woods–Conclusion | 177 |
CHAPTER I
A GREAT STREAK OF LUCK
“Anybody home?”
“Sure, walk right in, Toby. My latch-string is always out to my chums. I see you managed to pick up Steve on the way across; but I wager you had really to pry him loose from that dandy new volume on travel he was telling me about, because he’s such a bookworm.”
The two boys who hastened to accept this warm invitation, and enter Jack Winters’ snug “den” were his most particular chums. Those who have been lucky enough to read the preceding volume of this series[1] will of course require no introduction to Steve Mullane and Toby Hopkins. However, as many newcomers may for the first time be making the acquaintance of the trio in these pages, it might be just as well to enumerate a few of their leading characteristics, and then we can get along with our story.
Steve was a pretty husky fellow, a bit slow about making up his mind, but firm as adamant, 2 once he had convictions. He had proved