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Title: Motor Boat Boys Mississippi Cruise
or, The Dash for Dixie

Author: Louis Arundel

Release Date: June 30, 2007 [eBook #21980]

Language: English

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MOTOR BOAT BOYS

MISSISSIPPI CRUISE

Or

The Dash For Dixie

by

LOUIS ARUNDEL

[Frontispiece: Jack was keeping his hand on the alert, ready to reverse
his engine at even a second's warning.]

Chicago
M. A. Donohue & Co.
Copyright 1914
by
M. A. Donohue & Co.
Chicago

CONTENTS

I. ALL ABOARD FOR DIXIELAND!
II. THE START
III. A HANDICAP AT THE FIRST STATION
IV. THE SUDDEN PERIL
V. AROUSED AT MIDNIGHT
VI. STARTLING NEWS FROM NEAR HOME
VII. QUITE A SURPRISE PASTY
VIII. LEFT IN THE LURCH
IX. THE SWIFT RUN OF THE "TRAMP"
X. IN A KENTUCKY COVE
XI. TURNING THE TABLES ON THE BANK ROBBERS
XII. "LUCKY JACK!"
XIII. THE "WIRELESS" IN TOW
XIV. SIGNS OF THE SUNNY SOUTH
XV. BUSTER TAKES HOPE
XVI. ERASTUS, THE HOUSEBURNER
XVII. THE SHERIFF'S POSSE
XVIII. AT THE MOUTH OF THE SUNFLOWER
XIX. IN THE LAND OF COTTON
XX. THE CASTAWAYS OF THE SWAMP
XXI. BUSTER FACES STARVATION
XXII. THE DISCOVERY
XXIII. THE WINNER OF THE CUP--CONCLUSION

[Transcriber's note: The following two short stories were in the
original book, but are not related to the above story. No author was
given for them.]

An Awakening at Alvin

Caught with a Scrap of Paper

THE MOTOR BOAT BOYS' MISSISSIPPI CRUISE;

or

A Dash for the Dixie Cup

CHAPTER I.

ALL ABOARD FOR DIXIELAND!

"Aw, quit your kidding, now, George. You know I