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Title: Raftmates
A Story of the Great River

Author: Kirk Munroe

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RAFTMATES

A Story of the Great River

by

KIRK MUNROE

Author of
"Dorymates" "Campmates" "Canoemates" Etc.

Illustrated

[Frontispiece: "Winn dashed away with the speed of a deer."]

New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
1902
Copyright, 1893, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. THE RAFT
II. WINN ASSUMES A RESPONSIBILITY
III. A MUD-BESPATTERED ARRIVAL FROM CALIFORNIA
IV. BILLY BRACKETT STARTS DOWN THE RIVER
V. HOW THE VOYAGE WAS BEGUN
VI. MR. GILDER AND HIS RUDE RECEPTION
VII. A GANG OF "RIVER-TRADERS"
VIII. DISAPPEARANCE OF THE RAFT
IX. ALONE ON THE ISLAND
X. A NIGHT OF STRANGE HAPPENINGS
XI. BILLY BRACKETT'S SURPRISING SITUATION
XII. THE TRAPPERS TRAPPED
XIII. WINN'S LONELY CRUISE
XIV. A PEAL OF GIRLISH LAUGHTER
XV. "CAP'N COD," SABELLA, AND THE "WHATNOT"
XVI. BIM MAKES AN ENEMY
XVII. THE TRUTH, BUT NOT THE WHOLE TRUTH
XVIII. FOLLOWING THE TRAIL
XIX. A CURIOUS COMPLICATION
XX. BIM GROWLS
XXI. EVERY ONE EXPLAINS
XXII. A "MEWEL" NAMED "REWARD"
XXIII. REWARD RUNS AWAY WITH THE PANORAMA
XXIV. WINN DISCOVERS HIS LONG-LOST RAFT
XXV. THE RAFT AND SHOW-BOAT CHANGE CREWS
XXVI. A DISASTROUS COLLISION
XXVII. IS THIS OUR RAFT OR NOT?
XXVIII. THE RESCUE OF SABELLA
XXIX. BIM BRINGS ABOUT A JOYFUL MEETING
XXX. IN CLOD'S CABIN
XXXI. CAMPMATES TURN RAFTMATES
XXXII. THE "RIVER-TRADERS"