The Border Boys on the TrailJohn Henry Goldfrap, John Henry Goldfrap (1879 – November 21, 1917) was a North American journalist and author of boys\' booksThis ebook presents «The Border Boys on the Trail», from John Henry Goldfrap. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.Table of Contents- About This Book- On The Border- The Boys Find Trouble- A Race For Life- Through The Great Darkness- The Rustlers At Work- Taking Up The Trail- In The Hands Of The Enemy- Black Ramon\'s Mission- A Momentous Interview- In The Bell Tower- A Drop In The Dark- A Ride For The Hills- The Hermit Of The Canyon- Travels With A Mule- A Gateway To Freedom- Short Rations- The Tale Of A Mule- The Treasure Of The Mission- Jim Hicks, Prospector- Ralph A True Hero- At The Irrigation Dam- A Bolt From The Blue- With The Rurales- The Round Up

Farmer Hiram Applegate had just finished breakfast. For this reason, perhaps, he felt exceptionally good-humored. Even the news he had read in his morning paper (of the day before) to the effect that his pet abomination and aversion, The Boy Scouts, had held a successful and popular review in New York and received personal commendation from the President failed to shake his equanimity. Outside the farmhouse the spring sun shone bright and warm. The air was crisp, and odorous with the scent of apple blossoms. Robins twittered cheerily, hens clucked and now and then a blue bird flashed among the orchard trees.

“Seems to me, Rob, I ought to know that old tub of a motorboat we’re overhauling.” “Why, yes, Andy, it’s Captain Jerry Martin’s Sea Gull. Time was when she had a reputation for speed, but her engine is a back number now.” “Huh! that must have been away in Noah’s time, I reckon, Rob. Why, we could make circles around her, if we chose to drive our little Tramp to the limit.”

“Hullo, Rob; what’s up?” Merritt Crawford stopped on his way past the Hampton post-office, and hailed Rob Blake, the leader of the Eagle Patrol, of which Merritt was corporal. Both lads wore the natty scout uniform.

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John Henry Goldfrap (1879 – November 21, 1917) was a North American journalist and author of boys\' books, participating in the "American series phenomenon." He always wrote under pseudonyms. The boy aviators with the air raiders : a story of the great world war / by Captain Wilbur Lawson.

The Boy Scouts at the Canadian Border By John Henry Goldfrap

"Say Nat, I thought that this was to be a pleasure trip?" Joe Hartley, the perspiration beading his round, good-natured countenance, pushed back his sombrero and looked up whimsically from the punctured tire over which he was laboring.

On a certain May afternoon, Tom Jessop, assigned to "cover" the Seattle waterfront for his paper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, had his curiosity aroused by a craft that lay at the Spring Street dock. The vessel was newly painted, trim and trig in appearance and was seemingly of about two thousand tons register. Amidships was a single yellow funnel. From the aftermost of the two masts fluttered a blue flag with a square of white in the center. The reporter knew that this was the "Blue Peter," flown in token that the steamer was about to sail. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

The West Indian liner, Tropic Queen, one of the great vessels owned by the big shipping combine at whose head was Jacob Jukes, the New York millionaire, was plunging southward through a rolling green sea about two hundred miles to the east of Hatteras. It was evening and the bugle had just sounded for dinner.

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