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Title: The Thunder Bird

Author: B. M. Bower

Release Date: December 27, 2004 [eBook #14486]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII)

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THE THUNDER BIRD

by

B. M. BOWER

Author of _Chip of The Flying-U_, _Starr of the Desert_, _Skyrider_,
etc.

Frontispiece by Anton Otto Fischer

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers New York

1919,

[Frontispiece: Still Schwab hung back. "I'll wait until he can
come. I--I can't leave."]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I JOHNNY ASSUMES A DEBT OF HONOR
II AND THE CAT CAME BACK
III JOHNNY WOULD DO STUNTS
IV MARY V TO THE RESCUE
V GODS OR SOMETHING
VI FAME WAITS UPON JOHNNY
VII MERELY TWO POINTS OF VIEW
VIII SUDDEN MUST DO SOMETHING
IX GIVING THE COLT HIS HEAD
X LOCHINVAR UP TO DATE
XI JOHNNY WILL NOT BE A NICE BOY
XII THE THUNDER BIRD TAKES WING
XIII THE HEGIRA OF JOHN IVAN JEWEL
XIV FATE MEETS JOHNNY SMILING
XV ONE MORE PLUNGE FOR JOHNNY
XVI WITH HIS HANDS FULL OF MONEY AND HIS EYES SHUT
XVII "MY JOB'S FLYING"
XVIII INTO MEXICO AND RETURN
XIX BUT JOHNNY WAS NEITHER FOOL NOR KNAVE
XX MARY V TAKES THE TRAIL
XXI JOHNNY IS NOT PAID TO THINK
XXII JOHNNY MAKES UP HIS MIND
XXIII JOHNNY ACTS BOLDLY
XXIV THE THUNDER BIRD'S LAST FLIGHT FOR JOHNNY
XXV OVER THE TELEPHONE

CHAPTER ONE

JOHNNY ASSUMES A DEBT OF HONOR

Since Life is no more than a series of achievements and failures, this
story is going to begin exactly where the teller of tales usually
stops. It is going to begin with Johnny Jewel an accepted lover and
with one of his dearest ambitions realized. It is going to begin there
because Johnny himself was just beginning to climb, and the top of his
desires was still a long way off, and the higher you go the harder is
the climbing. Even love does not rest at peace with the slipping on of
the engagement ring. I leave it to Life, the supreme judge, to bear me
out in the statement that Love mus