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Title: Afloat
or, Adventures on Watery Trails

Author: Alan Douglas

Release Date: February 1, 2007 [EBook #20499]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Frontispiece: The track could plainly be seen but the trail ended
abruptly.]

AFLOAT:

_or,_

_Adventures on Watery Trails_

BY

CAPTAIN ALAN DOUGLAS

SCOUT MASTER

M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY

CHICAGO :: NEW YORK

Copyright, 1917, by

The New York Book Co.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE RAIL BIRDS HEAR SOME NEWS
II. WHEN HEN CONDIT LEFT TOWN
III. A PROMISING CLUE
IV. JOHNNY'S CHICKEN THIEF TRAP
V. THE KNIFE WITH THE BUCKHORN HANDLE
VI. BOUND FOR SASSAFRAS SWAMP
VII. THE MISSING SKIFF
VIII. PICKING UP CLUES
IX. THE PERILS OF THE WATER LABYRINTH
X. THE SUSPICIOUS ACTIONS OF LANDY
XI. A NIGHT ALARM
XII. THE VALUE OF SCOUTCRAFT
XIII. HEN CONDIT'S STRANGE MESSAGE
XIV. BOUND TO SUCCEED
XV. WOLF PATROL PLUCK WINS
XVI. CONCLUSION

ON WATERY TRAILS

CHAPTER I

THE RAIL BIRDS HEAR SOME NEWS

"Elmer said we'd take a vote on it!"

"Yes, and tonight the next regular meeting of the Hickory Ridge Boy
Scout Troop is scheduled to take place, so we'll soon know where we
stand."

"Thith hath been a pretty tame thummer for the cwowd, all told, don't
you think, Lil Artha?"

"It certainly has, as sure as your name's Ted Burgoyne. Our camping
out was cut short, for with so many rainy days we just had to give it
up."

"Yeth, after three of the fellowth came down with bad cases of malarial
fever. The mothquitoes were so plentiful."

"That was some news to me to find out that a certain breed of
mosquitoes are the only ones that give you the malarial poison when
they smack you."

"Huh! I used to think all that talk was a silly yarn, too, Toby, but
now I put a heap of stock in the same," declared the unusually tall and
thin boy, who seemed to answer to the queer name of "Lil Artha;" he had
evidently been dubbed so by his comra