[1]Meaning to send a message by a smudge signal.
[2]A pearl necklace is the phrase used by the English in Africa to define a trail which is visible and invisible at short, regular intervals.
[3]This is the Plattsburg of 1915-1916.
[4]Westport is just below Split Rock Mountain.
This Isn’t All!
Would you like to know what became of the good friends you have made in this book?
Would you like to read other stories continuing their adventures and experiences, or other books quite as entertaining by the same author?
On the reverse side of the wrapper which comes with this book, you will find a wonderful list of stories which you can buy at the same store where you got this book.
Don’t throw away the Wrapper
Use it as a handy catalog of the books you want some day to have. But in case you do mislay it, write to the Publishers for a complete catalog.
THE TOM SLADE BOOKS
By PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH
Author of “Roy Blakeley,” “Pee-wee Harris,” “Westy
Martin,” Etc.
Illustrated. Individual Picture Wrappers in Colors.
Every Volume Complete in Itself.
“Let your boy grow up with Tom Slade,” is a suggestion which thousands of parents have followed during the past, with the result that the TOM SLADE BOOKS are the most popular boys’ books published today. They take Tom Slade through a series of typical boy adventures through his tenderfoot days as a scout, through his gallant days as an American doughboy in France, back to his old patrol and the old camp ground at Black Lake, and so on.
- TOM SLADE, BOY SCOUT
- TOM SLADE AT TEMPLE CAMP
- TOM SLADE ON THE RIVER
- TOM SLADE WITH THE COLORS
- TOM SLADE ON A TRANSPORT
- TOM SLADE WITH THE BOYS OVER THERE
- TOM SLADE, MOTORCYCLE DISPATCH BEARER
- TOM SLADE WITH THE FLYING CORPS
- TOM SLADE AT BLACK LAKE
- TOM SLADE ON MYSTERY TRAIL
- TOM SLADE’S DOUBLE DARE
- TOM SLADE ON OVERLOOK MOUNTAIN
- TOM SLADE PICKS A WINNER
- TOM SLADE AT BEAR MOUNTAIN
THE ROY BLAKELEY BOOKS
By PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH
Author of “Tom Slade,” “Pee-wee Harris,” “Westy Martin,” Etc.
Illustrated. Individual Picture Wrappers in Color.
Every Volume Complete in Itself.
In the character and adventures of Roy Blakeley are typified the very essence of Boy life. He is a real boy, as real as Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer. He is the moving spirit of the troop of Scouts of which he is a member, and the average boy has to go only a little way in the first book before Roy is the best friend he ever had, and he is willing to part with his best treasure to get the next book in the series.
- ROY BLAKELEY
- ROY BLAKELEY’S ADVENTURES IN CAMP
- ROY BLAKELEY, PATHFINDER
- ROY BLAKELEY’S CAMP ON WHEELS
- ROY BLAKELEY’S SILVER FOX PATROL
- ROY BLAKELEY’S MOTOR CARAVAN
- ROY BLAKELEY, LOST, STRAYED OR STOLEN
- ROY BLAKELEY’S BEE-LINE HIKE
- ROY BLAKELEY AT THE HAUNTED CAMP
- ROY BLAKELEY’S FUNNY BONE HIKE
- ROY BLAKELEY’S TANGLED TRAIL
- ROY BLAKELEY ON THE MOHAWK TRAIL
THE PEE-WEE HARRIS BOOKS
By PERCY KEESE FITZHUGH
Author of “Tom Slade,” “Roy Blakeley,” “Westy
Martin,” Etc.
Illustrated. Individual Picture Wrappers in Color.
Every Volume Complete in Itself.
All readers of the Tom Slade and the Roy Blakeley books are acquainted with Pee-wee Harris. These stories record the true facts concerning his size (what there is of it) and his heroism (such as it is), his voice, his clothes, his appetite, his friends, his enemies, his victims. Together with the thrilling narrative of how he foiled, baffled, circumvented and triumphed over everything and everybody (except where he failed) and how even when he failed he succeeded. The whole recorded in a series of screams and told with neither muffler nor cut-out.
- PEE-WEE HARRIS
- PEE-WEE HARRIS ON THE TRAIL
- PEE-WEE HARRIS IN CAMP
- PEE-WEE HARRIS IN LUCK
- PEE-WEE HARRIS ADRIFT
- PEE-WEE HARRIS F.O.B. BRIDGEBORO
- PEE-WEE HARRIS FIXER
- PEE-WEE HARRIS: AS GOOD AS HIS WORD
THE JERRY TODD SERIES
By LEO EDWARDS
Illustrated. Individual Colored Wrappers For Each Story
Every Volume Complete in Itself
Detective stories for boys! Jerry Todd and his trusty pals solve many a baffling mystery in their home town, much to the amusement of all who read of their adventures.
- JERRY TODD AND THE WHISPERING MUMMY
- Having been duly appointed “Juvenile Jupiter Detectives” Jerry Todd and his trusty pals little realize how fast things are going to happen. First comes the amazing adventure in the museum in Tutter College. Did the mummy actually whisper? And did it later vanish of its own accord?
- JERRY TODD AND THE ROSE-COLORED CAT
- Cats by the dozens; cats by the hundreds; and most important of all, a mysterious five-hundred dollar rose-colored cat. Then comes the lamentable accident to Lady Victoria’s aristocratic tail; the operation; the over-dose of chloroform; the funeral. There is a laugh on every page.
- JERRY TODD AND THE OAK ISLAND TREASURE
- Jerry Todd and his pals set themselves up in the show business by transforming a disused clay scow of Mr. Todd’s into a floating theatre. And a very wonderful show it is! Certainly it leads the boys into exceptional adventures.
- JERRY TODD AND THE WALTZING HEN
- That strange hen? Why does it waltz? And what is the secret of the prowling peril? Then, even as the Hindu had earlier died so quickly and mysteriously, the boys’ old friend disappears. Then comes the final ludicrous climax.
- JERRY TODD AND THE TALKING FROG
- Jerry Todd and his chums leagued together to help another boy save a peculiar invention of his father’s, a talking frog, from thieving hands,—wait breathlessly in the lonely brick house where the puzzle maker had met with such a strange death. Fun and mystery here!
Football and Baseball Stories
Durably Bound. Illustrated. Colored Wrappers.
Every Volume Complete in Itself.
The Ralph Henry Barbour Books for Boys
In these up-to-the minute, spirited genuine stories of boy life there is something which will appeal to every boy with the love of manliness, cleanness and sportsmanship in his heart.
- LEFT END EDWARDS
- LEFT TACKLE THAYER
- LEFT GUARD GILBERT
- CENTER RUSH ROWLAND
- FULLBACK FOSTER
- LEFT HALF HARMON
- RIGHT END EMERSON
- RIGHT GUARD GRANT
The Christy Mathewson Books for Boys
Every boy wants to know how to play ball in the fairest and squarest way. These books about boys and baseball are full of wholesome and manly interest and information. Every young American who has ever tried to stop a grounder or put one over to first will enjoy them and want to own them all.
- PITCHER POLLOCK
- CATCHER CRAIG
- FIRST BASE FAULKNER
- SECOND BASE SLOAN
- PITCHING IN A PINCH
- THIRD BASE THATCHER, By Everett Scott
THE TOM SWIFT SERIES
By VICTOR APPLETON
Uniform Style of Binding. Individual Colored Wrappers.
Every Volume Complete in Itself.
Every boy possesses some form of inventive genius. Tom Swift is a bright, ingenious boy and his inventions and adventures make the most interesting kind of reading.
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS MOTOR CYCLE
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS MOTOR BOAT
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS AIRSHIP
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS SUBMARINE BOAT
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC RUNABOUT
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS WIRELESS MESSAGE
- TOM SWIFT AMONG THE DIAMOND MAKERS
- TOM SWIFT IN THE CAVES OF ICE
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS SKY RACER
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC RIFLE
- TOM SWIFT IN THE CITY OF GOLD
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS AIR GLIDER
- TOM SWIFT IN CAPTIVITY
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS WIZARD CAMERA
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS GREAT SEARCHLIGHT
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS GIANT CANNON
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS PHOTO TELEPHONE
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS AERIAL WARSHIP
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS BIG TUNNEL
- TOM SWIFT IN THE LAND OF WONDERS
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS WAR TANK
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS AIR SCOUT
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS UNDERSEA SEARCH
- TOM SWIFT AMONG THE FIRE FIGHTERS
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS FLYING BOAT
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS GREAT OIL GUSHER
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS CHEST OF SECRETS
- TOM SWIFT AND HIS AIRLINE EXPRESS
THE DON STURDY SERIES
By VICTOR APPLETON
Individual Colored Wrappers and Text Illustrations by
WALTER S. ROGERS
Every Volume Complete in Itself
In company with his uncles, one a mighty hunter and the other a noted scientist, Don Sturdy travels far and wide, gaining much useful knowledge and meeting many thrilling adventures.
- DON STURDY ON THE DESERT OF MYSTERY;
- Or, Autoing in the Land of the Caravans.
- An engrossing tale of the Sahara Desert, of encounters with wild animals and crafty Arabs.
- DON STURDY WITH THE BIG SNAKE HUNTERS;
- Or, Lost in the Jungles of the Amazon.
- Don’s uncle, the hunter, took an order for some of the biggest snakes to be found in South America—to be delivered alive! The filling of that order brought keen excitement to the boy.
- DON STURDY IN THE TOMBS OF GOLD;
- Or, The Old Egyptian’s Great Secret.
- A fascinating tale of exploration and adventure in the Valley of Kings in Egypt. Once the whole party became lost in the maze of cavelike tombs far underground.
- DON STURDY ACROSS THE NORTH POLE;
- Or, Cast Away in the Land of Ice.
- Don and his uncles joined an expedition bound by air across the north pole. A great polar blizzard nearly wrecks the airship.
- DON STURDY IN THE LAND OF VOLCANOES;
- Or, The Trail of the Ten Thousand Smokes.
- An absorbing tale of adventures among the volcanoes of Alaska in a territory but recently explored. A story that will make Don dearer to his readers than ever.
THE RADIO BOYS SERIES
(Trademark Registered)
By ALLEN CHAPMAN
Author of the “Railroad Series,” Etc.
Individual Colored Wrappers. Illustrated.
Every Volume Complete in Itself.
A new series for boys giving full details of radio work, both in sending and receiving—telling how small and large amateur sets can be made and operated, and how some boys got a lot of fun and adventure out of what they did. Each volume from first to last is so thoroughly fascinating, so strictly up-to-date and accurate, we feel sure all lads will peruse them with great delight.
Each volume has a Foreword by Jack Binns, the well-known radio expert.
- THE RADIO BOYS’ FIRST WIRELESS;
- Or, Winning the Ferberton Prize.
- THE RADIO BOYS AT OCEAN POINT;
- Or, The Message That Saved the Ship.
- THE RADIO BOYS AT THE SENDING STATION;
- Or, Making Good in the Wireless Room.
- THE RADIO BOYS AT MOUNTAIN PASS;
- Or, The Midnight Call for Assistance.
- THE RADIO BOYS TRAILING A VOICE;
- Or, Solving a Wireless Mystery.
- THE RADIO BOYS WITH THE FOREST RANGERS;
- Or, The Great Fire on Spruce Mountain.
- THE RADIO BOYS WITH THE ICEBERG PATROL;
- Or, Making Safe the Ocean Lanes.
- RADIO BOYS WITH THE FLOOD FIGHTERS;
- Or, Saving the City in the Valley.
THE RAILROAD SERIES
By ALLEN CHAPMAN
Author of the “Radio Boys,” Etc.
Uniform Style of Binding. Illustrated.
Every Volume Complete in Itself.
In this line of books there is revealed the whole workings of a great American railroad system. There are adventures in abundance—railroad wrecks, dashes through forest fires, the pursuit of a “wildcat” locomotive, the disappearance of a pay car with a large sum of money on board—but there is much more than this—the intense rivalry among railroads and railroad men, the working out of running schedules, the getting through “on time” in spite of all obstacles, and the manipulation of railroad securities by evil men who wish to rule or ruin.
- RALPH OF THE ROUND HOUSE;
- Or, Bound to Become a Railroad Man.
- RALPH IN THE SWITCH TOWER;
- Or, Clearing the Track.
- RALPH ON THE ENGINE;
- Or, The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail.
- RALPH ON THE OVERLAND EXPRESS;
- Or, The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer.
- RALPH, THE TRAIN DISPATCHER;
- Or, the Mystery of the Pay Car.
- RALPH ON THE ARMY TRAIN;
- Or, The Young Railroader’s Most Daring Exploit.
- RALPH ON THE MIDNIGHT FLYER;
- Or, The Wreck at Shadow Valley.
- RALPH AND THE MISSING MAIL POUCH;
- Or, The Stolen Government Bonds.
THE RIDDLE CLUB BOOKS
By ALICE DALE HARDY
Individual Colored Wrappers. Attractively Illustrated.
Every Volume Complete in Itself.
Here is as ingenious a series of books for little folks as has ever appeared since “Alice in Wonderland.” The idea of the Riddle books is a little group of children—three girls and three boys decide to form a riddle club. Each book is full of the adventures and doings of these six youngsters, but as an added attraction each book is filled with a lot of the best riddles you ever heard.
- THE RIDDLE CLUB AT HOME
- An absorbing tale that all boys and girls will enjoy reading. How the members of the club fixed up a clubroom in the Larue barn, and how they, later on, helped solve a most mysterious happening, and how one of the members won a valuable prize, is told in a manner to please every young reader.
- THE RIDDLE CLUB IN CAMP
- The club members went into camp on the edge of a beautiful lake. Here they had rousing good times swimming, boating and around the campfire. They fell in with a mysterious old man known as The Hermit of Triangle Island. Nobody knew his real name or where he came from until the propounding of a riddle solved these perplexing questions.
- THE RIDDLE CLUB THROUGH THE HOLIDAYS
- This volume takes in a great number of winter sports, including skating and sledding and the building of a huge snowman. It also gives the particulars of how the club treasurer lost the dues entrusted to his care and what the melting of the great snowman revealed.
- THE RIDDLE CLUB AT SUNRISE BEACH
- This volume tells how the club journeyed to the seashore and how they not only kept up their riddles but likewise had good times on the sand and on the water. Once they got lost in a fog and are marooned on an island. Here they made a discovery that greatly pleased the folks at home.
THE HONEY BUNCH BOOKS
By HELEN LOUISE THORNDYKE
Individual Colored Wrappers and Text Illustrations Drawn by
WALTER S. ROGERS
A new line of fascinating tales for little girls. Honey Bunch is a dainty, thoughtful little girl, and to know her is to take her to your heart at once.
- HONEY BUNCH: JUST A LITTLE GIRL
- Happy days at home, helping mamma and the washerlady. And Honey Bunch helped the house painters too—or thought she did.
- HONEY BUNCH: HER FIRST VISIT TO THE CITY
- What wonderful sights Honey Bunch saw when she went to visit her cousins in New York! And she got lost in a big hotel and wandered into a men’s convention!
- HONEY BUNCH: HER FIRST DAYS ON THE FARM
- Can you remember how the farm looked the first time you visited it? How big the cows and horses were, and what a roomy place to play in the barn proved to be?
- HONEY BUNCH: HER FIRST VISIT TO THE SEASHORE
- Honey Bunch soon got used to the big waves and thought playing in the sand great fun. And she visited a merry-go-round, and took part in a sea-side pageant.
- HONEY BUNCH: HER FIRST LITTLE GARDEN
- It was great sport to dig and to plant with one’s own little garden tools. But best of all was when Honey Bunch won a prize at the flower show.
- HONEY BUNCH: HER FIRST DAYS IN CAMP
- It was a great adventure for Honey Bunch when she journeyed to Camp Snapdragon. It was wonderful to watch the men erect the tent, and more wonderful to live in it and have good times on the shore and in the water.
GROSSET & DUNLAP, Publishers, NEW YORK
Scouts running across a beach.