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Title: The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on the Battle Line
Or, With the Allies in France

Author: Ralph Marlow

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Language: English

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THE BIG FIVE MOTORCYCLE BOYS ON THE BATTLE LINE

Or

With the Allies in France

by

RALPH MARLOW

Author of

"The Big Five Motorcycle Boys Under Fire," "The Big Five Motorcycle
Boys at the Front," "The Big Five Motorcycle Boys' Swift Road Chase,"
"The Big Five Motorcycle Boys in Tennessee Wilds," "The Big Five
Motorcycle Boys Through by Wireless," "The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on
Florida Trails."

A. L. Burt Company
New York.

Copyright, 1916
By A. L. Burt Company

THE BIG FIVE MOTORCYCLE BOYS ON THE BATTLE LINE

[Illustration: THERE WAS A SUDDEN SPITEFUL CRACK FROM THE REAR, AND
JOSH DUCKED HIS HEAD INVOLUNTARILY. The Big Five Motorcycle Boys on
the Battle Line. Page 35.]

THE BIG FIVE MOTORCYCLE BOYS ON THE BATTLE LINE.

CHAPTER I.

ON THE STREETS OF ANTWERP.

"Good-bye, Elmer, and you, too, Rooster!"

"It's too bad we have to hurry home, and break up the Big Five
Motorcycle Boys' combination, just when we've been having such royal
good times over in the country of the Great War!"

"But there was nothing else to do, Elmer, when you got that cable
message telling you to take the first steamer home, as your mother was
about to undergo an operation, and wanted to see you first."

"And Rooster here chose to go along with you, because he's got such a
tender chic