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Title: Harper's Young People, August 3, 1880
An Illustrated Weekly

Author: Various

Release Date: June 8, 2009 [EBook #29066]

Language: English

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*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE, AUG 3, 1880 ***

Produced by Annie McGuire

[Illustration: HARPER'S

YOUNG PEOPLE

AN ILLUSTRATED WEEKLY.]

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VOL. I.--NO. 40. PUBLISHED BY HARPER & BROTHERS, NEW YORK. PRICE FOUR
CENTS.

Tuesday, August 3, 1880. Copyright, 1880, by HARPER & BROTHERS. $1.50
per Year, in Advance.

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[Illustration: GOING THROUGH THE LOCK.--DRAWN BY A. B. FROST.]

[Begun in YOUNG PEOPLE No. 31, June 1.]

THE MORAL PIRATES.

BY W. L. ALDEN.

CHAPTER X.

The policeman did not return, and the boys slept until an hour after
sunrise. They then rowed down the river to the steamboat landing, where
they left their boat in charge of a boatman, and went to a hotel for
breakfast. The waiters were rather astonished at the tremendous
appetites displayed by the four sunburned boys, and there is no doubt
that the landlord lost money that morning. After breakfast, Harry went
to the express office, where he found a large water-proof India rubber
bag, which the Department had sent in answer to his letter. At the
post-office were letters from home for all the boys, and a postal order
for ten dollars from Uncle John for the use of the expedition. Harry had
no idea that this money would be needed, but it subsequently proved to
be very useful.

Quite a quantity of stores were bought at Albany, for the voyage up the
Hudson had lasted longer than any one had supposed it would, and the
provisions were getting low. No unnecessary time was spent in buying
these stores, for a fair wind was blowing, and all the boys were anxious
to take advantage of it. By ten o'clock they were again afloat, and soon
after noon they reached Troy, and entered the canal.

The canal basin was crowded with canal-boats, and to avoid accidents the
_Whitewing's_ mast was taken down, and the o