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Title: Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast
or Through Storm and Stress to Florida

Author: Louis Arundel

Release Date: December 21, 2009 [EBook #30727]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MOTOR BOAT BOYS DOWN THE COAST ***

Produced by Al Haines

[Transcriber's note: this book contains the short story "Mrs. Stone's
Money-Order." Its author is unknown.]

[Illustration: Cover art]

[Frontispiece: Jack, crouching there, with one elbow resting on his
knee, took as good an aim as the conditions allowed]

Motor Boat Boys

Down the Coast

Or

_Through Storm and Stress to Florida_

By

LOUIS ARUNDEL

Author of "Motor Boat Boys on the St. Lawrence," "Motor Boat Boys
Cruise Down the Mississippi," "Motor Boat Boys on the Great Lakes,"
"Motor Boat Boys Among the Florida Keys"

Chicago

M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY

Copyright 1913

by

M. A. DONOHUE & CO.

CHICAGO

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. AFLOAT ON THE LOWER DELAWARE
II. A GOOD OMEN FOR THE START
III. JACK TAKES A HYDRO-AEROPLANE MESSAGE
IV. THE FIRST CAMP FIRE ASHORE
V. A STORM, AND NO REFUGE IN SIGHT
VI. A CLOSE SHAVE, BUT NO DAMAGE DONE
VII. HOW THE MOTOR BOAT FLOTILLA WENT TO SEA
VIII. THE CAMP INVADED
IX. THE DESPERATION OF HUNGER
X. NICK IN SEARCH OF A MERMAID
XI. A STUNNING DISCOVERY
XII. THE CAMP UNDER CAPE CHARLES LIGHT
XIII. A SHOUT AT MIDNIGHT
XIV. NICK BAGS HIS GAME
XV. A WARM WELCOME TO THE STORMY CAPE
XVI. THE WIRELESS AS TRICKY AS EVER
XVII. GOODBYE TO AN ANCHOR
XVIII. A SIGNAL OF DISTRESS
XIX. THE MESSAGE OF HOPE
XX. MEETING TROUBLE HALF WAY
XXI. FOG BOUND WHILE AT SEA
XXII. SAVANNAH AT LAST
XXIII. THANKS TO THE PILOT--CONCLUSION

MOTOR BOAT BOYS SERIES

THE MOTOR CLUB'S CRUISE DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI
THE MOTOR CLUB ON THE ST. LAWRENCE RIVER
THE MOTOR CLUB ON THE GREAT LAKES
MOTOR BOAT BOYS AMONG THE FLORIDA KEYS
MOTOR BOAT BOYS DOWN THE COAST
MOTOR BOAT BOYS RIV