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Copyright, 1913, by Grosset & Dunlap

THE MOVING PICTURE BOYS ON THE COAST

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I AN UNEXPECTED ATTACK 1
II A DARING RAID 12
III THE PURSUIT 23
IV BACK TO BIG B 29
V A NEW KIND OF DRAMA 40
VI ON THE COAST 46
VII AT THE LIGHTHOUSE 56
VIII BLAKE LEARNS A SECRET 62
IX AT PRACTICE 71
X TO SAN FRANCISCO 79
XI A STRANGE CHARGE 87
XII ON A LONG VOYAGE 93
XIII A MIMIC FIRE 101
XIV ATTACKED BY A SWORDFISH 111
XV SUSPICIOUS ACTIONS 119
XVI JOE SUSPECTS SOMETHING 127
XVII AFTER THE WRECKERS 134
XVIII FAILURE 144
XIX ON THE TRAIL 151
XX THE DISCOVERY 158
XXI THE CAPTURE 164
XXII A LIFE GUARD'S ALARM 171
XXIII THE DOOMED VESSEL 181
XXIV OUT OF THE WRECK 187
XXV A NEW QUEST 201

THE MOVING PICTURE BOYS ON THE COAST

CHAPTER I

AN UNEXPECTED ATTACK

"Well, Blake, it doesn't seem possible that we have succeeded; does it?"
and the lad who asked the question threw one leg over the saddle of his
pony, to ride side fashion for a while, as a rest and change.

"No, Joe, it doesn't," answered another youth. "But we sure have got
some dandy films in those boxes!" and he looked back on some laden
burros that were following the cow ponies across a stretch of Arizona
desert.

"Well, all I've got to say," remarked the cowboy, the third member of
the trio; "is that taking moving pictures is about as strenuous work as
rounding up or branding cattle."

"I guess you don't quite believe that, Hank; do you?" asked Blake
Stewart. "You haven't seen us work so very hard; have you?"

"Work hard? I should say I have," answered Hank Selby. "Why, the time
those Indians charged our cave, and Joe and I, and Munson and his crowd
were getting ready to fire point-blank at them, there you stood, with
bullets whizzing near you more than once, grinding away at the handle of
your moving picture camera as