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Title: The Boy Chums in the Forest
or Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades

Author: Wilmer M. Ely

Illustrator: J. Watson Davis

Release Date: December 18, 2008 [EBook #27561]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Al Haines

[Illustration: Cover art]

[Frontispiece: "Now, we are in for it," said Charlie, as he found a
seat in the fork of a limb. Page 229.]

The Boy Chums

In the Forest

OR

Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades

BY WILMER M. ELY

Author of "The Boy Chums on Indian River," "The Boy
Chums on Haunted Island," "The Boy Chums'
Perilous Cruise," "The Boy Chums in the
Gulf of Mexico."

[Illustration: Title page art]

A. L. BURT COMPANY

NEW YORK

Copyright 1910

BY A. L. BURT COMPANY

Under the Title of The Young Plume Hunters

THE BOY CHUMS IN THE FOREST

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. [Transcriber's note: no title]
II. ON THE WAY
III. WOODCRAFT
IV. A LESSON
V. THE 'GATOR HUNTERS
VI. SOME SURPRISES
VII. THE QUAGMIRE
VIII. THE BATTLE
IX. THE BEES AND THE BEAR
X. SHOOTING A THIEF
XI. THE PAWPAWS
XII. CHARLEY'S MISTAKE
XIII. THE BATTLE
XIV. THE VICTIMS
XV. A FLAG OF TRUCE
XVI. THE RETREAT
XVII. THE FLIGHT BY NIGHT
XVIII. CAPTURED
XIX. THE SWAMP
XX. SAVED
XXI. THE TREASURE
XXII. DISAPPOINTMENT
XXIII. MORE MYSTERY
XXIV. MORE SURPRISES
XXV. THE CHAPEL
XXVI. PREPARATIONS
XXVII. A TERRIBLE NIGHT
XXVIII. PREPARATIONS
XXIX. THE ENEMY
XXX. THE ATTACK
XXXI. THE PARLEY
XXXII. HELP
XXXIII. THE SEMINOLES
XXXIV. THE RETURN

THE BOY CHUMS IN THE FOREST

OR

Hunting for Plume Birds in the Florida Everglades.

CHAPTER I.

Night had fallen upon a wild Florida forest, and all was still save for
the hooting of a distant owl and the occasional plaintive call of a
whip-poor-wi