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Title: The Hilltop Boys on the River

Author: Cyril Burleigh

Release Date: July 19, 2004 [EBook #12943]

Language: English

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THE HILLTOP BOYS ON THE RIVER

by Cyril Burleigh

CONTENTS

CHAPTERS
I. Getting a Motor-Boat
II. Trying Out the New Boat
III. Evil Intentions Thwarted
IV. The Boat Affair Unsettled
V. An Alarm in the Night
VI. The Mystery of the Gold Watch
VII. More Mystery about the Watch
VIII. What Jack and Dick Overheard
IX. Another Claimant for the Watch
X. Disappointments
XI. The Cat Out of the Bag
XII. The Owner of the Watch Found
XIII. The Prize Poem
XIV. Billy's Nocturnal Adventure
XV. Fun on the River
XVI. The Prizes Awarding
XVII. A Puzzling Matter Settled
XVIII. The Departure of the Bullies
XIX. The Troubles of the Surveying Party
XX. Getting at the Bottom of Things
XXI. What Appearing on Billy's Plates
XXII. Everything is Settled

CHAPTER I

GETTING A MOTOR BOAT

"If you are going with the boys on the river, Jack, you will have
to get a motor-boat. Won't you let me buy you one?"

"No, not a bit of it, Dick."

"But you want one?"

"Certainly, and I am going to have one."

"But motor-boats cost money, Jack. Why, mine cost me-----"

"Never mind what it cost, Dick. You spend a lot more money than
I can afford to spend, and you have a gilt-edged affair, of course.
I want a boat to use as well as to look at."

"But you want a serviceable boat, Jack?"

"I am going to have it, and it will not cost me anything like what
your boat cost. Just let me look around a bit, Dick."

"All right, I'll let you do all the looking you want, but I'd like to
buy you a boat just the same."

"No doubt you would, and so would Jesse W. and Harry and Arthur and a
dozen other boys, but I am going to get one myself, and it will not
cost me much either, and will give me all the service I want. We
don't go into camp under a week, and that will give me all the time