THE HOSPITAL--CONGRATULATED BY ALL--WRITING TO THE
PAPER OF HIS EXPERIENCES

CHAPTER XX.

AROUND THE ISLAND ON A WAR-SHIP--BOMBARDING A FILIPINO TOWN

CHAPTER XXI.

CONTINUING THE CRUISE--ANOTHER VILLAGE CAPTURED--THE ADMIRAL ARCHIE'S
FRIEND--A GREAT BATTLE AND AN UNEXPECTED VICTORY--LONGING TO BE HOME
AGAIN

CHAPTER XXII.

RETURN TO HEADQUARTERS--A LETTER FROM THE EDITOR, WITH PERMISSION TO
RETURN TO NEW YORK--BILL HICKSON GOES, TOO

CHAPTER XXIII.

HONG KONG--A HAPPY TIME IN TOKIO--HONOLULU AGAIN--ARRIVAL IN SAN
FRANCISCO, AND A GREAT RECEPTION BY THE PRESS--ARCHIE AND BILL ARRIVE IN
NEW YORK, AND ARE THE HEROES OF THE HOUR

CHAPTER XXIV.

DOING "SPECIAL" WORK UPON THE EVENING PAPER--INTERVIEWS WITH FAMOUS
MEN--CALLS UPON OLD FRIENDS

CHAPTER XXV.

PRIVATE SECRETARY TO A MILLIONAIRE--STUDYING AT EVENING SCHOOL--LIVING
AMID ELEGANT SURROUNDINGS

CHAPTER XXVI.

DECIDES TO VISIT HOME--A GREAT RECEPTION IN THE TOWN--A PUBLIC CHARACTER
NOW--DINNER TO THE HUT CLUB--DEMONSTRATION AT THE TOWN HALL--A TELEGRAM
FROM HIS EMPLOYER LEAVING FOR EUROPE

THE ADVENTURES OF A BOY REPORTER.

CHAPTER I.

LIVING IN THE COUNTRY--LIFE AT SCHOOL--THE HUT CLUB IS FORMED--THE
COMING OF THE CIRCUS.

"YES," said Mrs. Dunn to her neighbour, Mrs. Sullivan, "we are expecting
great things of Archie, and yet we sometimes hardly know what to think
of the boy. He has the most remarkable ideas of things, and there seems
to be absolutely no limit to his ambition. He has long since determined
that he will some day be President, and he expects to enter politics the
day he is twenty-one."

"Is that so, indeed," said Mrs. Sullivan. "Well, we can never tell
what is going to come of our boys. As I says to Dannie to-day, says
I, 'Dannie, you must do your best to be somebody and make something of
yourself, for you and Jack bees all that I has to depend upon now.' But
Dannie pays no attention to my entreaties, and somehow it seems to me
that since Mr. Sullivan died the boys are gettin' worse and worse. It's
beyond me to control them, anyhow."

"Oh, take heart, Mrs. Sullivan," said Mrs. Dunn, "our boys will all turn
out well in the end, and all we can do is to bring them up in the best
way we know, and trust to them to take care of themselves after they
leave home. Now Dannie is certainly an industrious lad. I hear him
pounding nails all day long in the back yard, and he made a good job of
shingling the woodshed th