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Title: Chums in Dixie
or The Strange Cruise of a Motorboat

Author: St. George Rathborne

Release Date: May 17, 2007 [EBook #21507]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Frontispiece: "There he comes right now, Larry; and he's holding up
some game you like right well."]

Chums In Dixie

OR

_THE STRANGE CRUISE OF A MOTORBOAT_

_By_

ST. GEORGE RATHBORNE

Author of

"THE HOUSE BOAT BOYS," "THE YOUNG FUR-TAKERS," "CANOE MATES IN CANADA,"
Etc.

M. A. DONOHUE & CO.,

Chicago

COPYRIGHT 1912.

M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY.

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE VOYAGE BEGUN
II. A BOY OF THE SWAMPS
III. THE SQUATTERS OF THE CYPRESS TRACT
IV. DOWN THE SWIFT CURRENT
V. WHAT HAPPENED ON THE FIRST NIGHT
VI. "SAVING THE BACON"
VII. LARRY CATCHES THE FEVER
VIII. HELD FAST
IX. THE SECOND NIGHT OUT
X. WHEN THE SLEEPER AWOKE
XI. AN UNINVITED GUEST
XII. THE SHERIFF AND HIS "DAWGS"
XIII. IN THE CYPRESS COUNTRY
XIV. LARRY PICKS UP SOME MORE POINTERS
XV. A RIDE ON AN ALLIGATOR
XVI. UNDER THE TWISTED LIVE OAK
XVII. TALKING IT OVER
XVIII. THE COMING OF THE TERRIBLE McGEE
XIX. TAKEN PRISONER
XX. AMONG THE SHINGLE-MAKERS
XXI. A GLOOMY OUTLOOK
XXII. PHIL SHOOTS HIS BOLT--AND LOSES!
XXIII. THE WINGED MESSENGER

CHUMS IN DIXIE

OR

_The Strange Cruise of a Motor Boat_

By ST. GEORGE RATHBORNE

CHAPTER I

THE VOYAGE BEGUN

"Phil, oh! Phil, won't you please hurry up? I'll go to sleep pretty
soon, if we don't get a move on us."

"Just give me five minutes more, Larry, and I promise you we're going
to leave this place, and start on our cruise down to the big Gulf.
I've got a couple of nuts to put on again, and then you'll hear the
little motor begin to hum."

The last speaker was bending over the engine of a fair-sized motor
boat, which had a stationary roof, and adjustable curtains that in time