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Title: The Airplane Boys among the Clouds
or, Young Aviators in a Wreck

Author: John Luther Langworthy

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Language: English

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THE AIRPLANE BOYS AMONG THE CLOUDS

or,

Young Aviators in a Wreck

by

JOHN LUTHER LANGWORTHY

M. A. Donohue & Company
Chicago ------ New York
1912

CONTENTS

Chapter

I. TRYING OUT THE NEW BIPLANE
II. A RESCUER FROM THE SKIES
III. THE MEN IN THE TOURING CAR
IV. SUSPICION
V. FIGURING IT ALL OUT
VI. AN UNKNOWN ENEMY
VII. SEEN FROM THE EAGLES' EYRIE
VIII. MYSTERIOUS MR. MARSH AT IT AGAIN
IX. STARTLING NEWS OVER THE WIRE
X. IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CHIEF
XI. A NEW ALARM
XII. SANDY DROPS SOMETHING
XIII. THE CHALLENGE
XIV. SOMETHING DOING
XV. THE AWAKENING
XVI. THE CHIEF MEETS AN OLD FRIEND
XVII. GALLANT ANDY
XVIII. AT THE FOOT OF THE LIBERTY POLE
XIX. THE MYSTERY STILL UNSOLVED
XX. THE RIVAL AVIATORS
XXI. THE RACE WITH THE STORM
XXII. A TERRIBLE MOMENT ON OLD THUNDER TOP
XXIII. THE BIRD BOYS' TRIUMPH--CONCLUSION

THE AIRPLANE BOYS AMONG THE CLOUDS

or, Young Aviators in a Wreck

CHAPTER I

TRYING OUT THE NEW BIPLANE

"I tell you, Elephant, it's the Bird boys, and nobody else!"

"But they had a monoplane last summer, Larry; and you can see for
yourself it's a biplane out yonder over the lake. So that's why I
thought it must be Percy Carberry and his crony, Sandy Hollingshead."

"Shucks! stir up your think-box, Elephant. Get a move on your mind,
and look back. Don't you remember Percy lost his old biplane when he
took that trip down to South America, and had some trouble with the
revolutionists in Colombia?"

"Say, now, that's right. You mean the time Andy Bird found his
long-lost father, whose balloon left him a prisoner in such a queer
way? Yes, but tell me, where