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[Illustration: Cover art]
[Frontispiece: Jack, crouching there, with one elbow resting on his
knee, took as good an aim as the conditions allowed]
Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast Or Through Storm and Stress to Florida By
LOUIS ARUNDEL
Author of "Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence," "Motor Boat Boys
Cruise Down the Mississippi," "Motor Boat Boys on the Great Lakes,"
"Motor Boat Boys Among the Florida Keys" Chicago M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY
Copyright 1913 by M. A. DONOHUE & CO. CHICAGO
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. AFLOAT ON THE LOWER DELAWARE
II. A GOOD OMEN FOR THE START
III. JACK TAKES A HYDRO AEROPLANE MESSAGE
IV. THE FIRST CAMP FIRE ASHORE
V. A STORM, AND NO REFUGE IN SIGHT
VI. A CLOSE SHAVE, BUT NO DAMAGE DONE
VII. HOW THE MOTOR BOAT FLOTILLA WENT TO SEA
VIII. THE CAMP INVADED
IX. THE DESPERATION OF HUNGER
X. NICK IN SEARCH OF A MERMAID
XI. A STUNNING DISCOVERY
XII. THE CAMP UNDER CAPE CHARLES LIGHT
XIII. A SHOUT AT MIDNIGHT
XIV. NICK BAGS HIS GAME
XV. A WARM WELCOME TO THE STORMY CAPE
XVI. THE WIRELESS AS TRICKY AS EVER
XVII. GOODBYE TO AN ANCHOR
XVIII. A SIGNAL OF DISTRESS
XIX. THE MESSAGE OF HOPE
XX. MEETING TROUBLE HALF WAY
XXI. FOG BOUND WHILE AT SEA
XXII. SAVANNAH AT LAST
XXIII. THANKS TO THE PILOT CONCLUSION
MOTOR BOAT BOYS SERIES
THE MOTOR CLUB'S CRUISE DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI
THE MOTOR CLUB ON THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
THE MOTOR CLUB ON THE GREAT LAKES
MOTOR BOAT BOYS AMONG THE FLORIDA KEYS
MOTOR BOAT BOYS DOWN THE COAST
MOTOR BOAT BOYS RIVER CHASE
MOTOR BOAT BOYS DOWN THE DANUBE
THE MOTOR BOAT BOYS DOWN THE COAST; or Through Storm and Stress to Florida
CHAPTER I. AFLOAT ON THE LOWER DELAWARE. "Toot your horn, Jimmy, and let everybody know we're off at last!" "Sure, there's the ould Wireless coming up on us, hand over fist.
It's a broth of a bhoy George Rollins is for speed!" "Yes, he always starts out well, and with a rush; but generally manages
to have his engine break down; and then even the wide old tub Comfort
gets there ahead of the narrow speed boat. Now give 'em a blast,
Jimmy. The coast cruise is on!" Accordingly, Jimmy Brannigan, who served as cook and crew aboard the
staunch motor boat Tramp , some twenty three feet in length by six
feet wide (the boat, not Jimmy), and with Jack Stormways as pilot,
puffed out his cheeks and blew. It was a necessary method for sounding the conch shell horn, which, if
blown like a bugle, would send out a screech that could be heard a mile
away. Answering toots came from the two other crafts that had just left
Philadelphia astern, and were heading down the old Delaware River,
bound for Florida. Here were six of the happiest young chaps on the face of the globe;
and, indeed, how could they help it? Blessed with good health; three
of them owning motor boats that had served them now for two seasons,
and with stores aboard for a "bully" voyage down the Atlantic coast,
taking the inland passage, what more could the heart of a real boy,
with red blood in his veins, sigh for! These six lads lived in a town "out Mississippi way." They had long
ago ceased to be novices in the management of motor boats, and the
great benefit they seemed to have secured from previous trips on the
water, both down the wonderful Mississippi and on the Great Lakes, had
convinced their fathers that they were to be trusted under any and all
conditions. Hence, when a calamity befell the high school of their native place,
which all of them attended, fire destroying the main part of the
building, so that there could be no session until some time after
Christmas, and a brilliant scheme dawned upon the mind of Jack
Stormways, they were not long in convincing those who controlled their
destinies that the opportunity for a run down the Atlantic coast before
winter set in, with possibly a similar cruise along the Mexican gulf to
New Orleans, was too good to be lost... Continue reading book >>
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