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Title: The Rover Boys on the River
The Search for the Missing Houseboat

Author: Arthur Winfield

Release Date: May 25, 2005 [EBook #15904]

Language: English

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The Rover Boys on the River

The Search for the Missing Houseboat

By

Arthur Winfield

CONTENTS

I. Plans for an Outing
II. On the way to Putnam Hall
III. The Doings of a Night
IV. What the Morning Brought Forth
V. For and Against
VI. Link Smith's Confession
VII. Fun on the Campus
VIII. Good-bye to Putnam Hall
IX. The Rover Boys at Home
X. A Scene in a Cemetery
XI. Attacked from Behind
XII. Flapp and Baxter Plot Mischief
XIII. Chips and the Circus Bills
XIV. Fun at the Show
XV. Acts Not on the Bills
XVI. Aleck Brings News
XVII. A Queer Captain
XVIII. On Board the Houseboat
XIX. Words and Blows
XX. Days of Pleasure
XXI. The Disappearance of the Houseboat
XXII. Dan Baxter's Little Game
XXIII. A Run in the Dark
XXIV. The Horse Thieves
XXV. Plotting Against Dora and Nellie
XXVI. The Search on the River
XXVII. Caught Once More
XXVIII. A Message for the Rovers
XXIX. Jake Shaggam, of Shaggam Creek
XXX. The Rescue--Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

My dear boys: "The Rover Boys on the River" is a complete story in
itself, but forms the ninth volume of "The Rover Boys Series for Young
Americans."

Nine volumes! What a great number of tales to write about one set of
characters! When I started the series I had in mind, as I have
mentioned before, to write three, or possibly, four books. But the
gratifying reception given to "The Rover Boys at School," soon made the
publishers call for the second, third, and fourth volumes, and then
came the others, and still the boys and girls do not seem to be
satisfied. I am told there is a constant cry for "more! more!" and so I
present this new Rover Boys story, which tells of the doings of Dick,
Tom, and Sam and their friends during an outin