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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Skyrider, by B. M. Bower, Illustrated by Anton Otto Fischer This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Skyrider Author: B. M. Bower Release Date: October 14, 2005 [eBook #16871] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SKYRIDER*** E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 16871-h.htm or 16871-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/8/7/16871/16871-h/16871-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/6/8/7/16871/16871-h.zip) SKYRIDER by B. M. BOWER with frontispiece by Anton Otto Fischer 1919 [Illustration: Johnny dared a volplane, slanting steeply down at the herd.] Boston Little, Brown, and Company CONTENTS Chapter I A Poet without Honor II One Fight, Two Quarrels, and a Riddle III Johnny Goes Gaily Enough to Sinkhole IV A Thing that Sets like a Hawk V Desert Glimpses VI Salvage VII Finder, Keeper VIII Over the Telephone IX A Midnight Ride X Signs, and No One to Read Them XI Thieves Ride Boldly XII Johnny's Amazing Run of Luck Still Holds its Pace XIII Mary V Confronts Johnny XIV Johnny Would Serve Two Masters XV The Fire that Made the Smoke XVI Let's Go XVII A Rider of the Sky XVIII Flying Comes High XIX "We Fly South" XX Men Are Stupid XXI Mary V Will not be Bluffed XXII Luck Turns Traitor XXIII Dreams and Darkness XXIV Johnny's Dilemma XXV Skyrider "Has Flew"! SKYRIDER CHAPTER ONE A POET WITHOUT HONOR Before I die, I'll ride the sky; I'll part the clouds like foam. I'll brand each star with the Rolling R, And lead the Great Bear home. I'll circle Mars to beat the cars, On Venus I will call. If she greets me fair as I ride the air, To meet her I wil
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