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Title: No Moss
The Career of a Rolling Stone

Author: Harry Castlemon

Release Date: July 22, 2010 [EBook #33226]

Language: English

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_THE GO-AHEAD SERIES._

NO MOSS;

OR,

THE CAREER OF A ROLLING STONE

BY HARRY CASTLEMON

AUTHOR OF "THE GUN-BOAT SERIES," "THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN SERIES," ETC.

THE JOHN C. WINSTON CO.
PHILADELPHIA
CHICAGO, TORONTO

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by
R. W. CARROLL & CO.,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States,
for the Southern District of Ohio.

COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY CHARLES A. FOSDICK.

CONTENTS.

I. FIRE QUARTERS

II. SAM BARTON'S HARBORING PLACE

III. A NEW PLAN

IV. TOM IN TROUBLE

V. ATKINS REFUSES DUTY

VI. THE GOVERNOR'S STRATEGY

VII. THE GOVERNOR STORMS THE REBELS

VIII. CROSSING THE SHOALS

IX. JOHNNY HARDING'S VISITORS

X. A STRANGE ENCOUNTER

XI. TOM'S SPLENDID IDEA

XII. HOW IT RESULTED

XIII. CRUSOE AFLOAT AGAIN

XIV. THE PHANTOM SCHOONER

XV. TOM HAS ANOTHER IDEA

XVI. JOHNNY IS MISTAKEN FOR AN ENEMY

XVII. THE BATTLE AT THE BRIDGE

XVIII. THE ROBBERS ARE PUNISHED

XIX. THE ARMY AND NAVY

XX. A CHAPTER OF INCIDENTS

XXI. CONCLUSION

NO MOSS,

OR,

THE CAREER OF A ROLLING STONE.

CHAPTER I.

FIRE QUARTERS.

"Four bells, sir!" reported the messenger-boy, to the officer who had
charge of the deck of the Storm King.

"Very good. Quartermaster, make it so."

The silvery tones of the little bell rang through the vessel, and
immediately there began a great noise and hubbub on the berth-deck,
which, but a moment before, had been so quiet and orderly. Songs, shouts