The Rover Boys at Colby Hall; or, The Struggles of the Young Cadets

My Dear Boys: This book is a complete story in itself, but forms the first volume in a line issued under the general title, "The Second Rover Boys Series for Young Americans."

As mentioned in several of the other volumes of the first series, this line was started a number of years ago with the publication of "The Rover Boys at School," in which my readers were introduced to Dick, Tom, and Sam Rover, three wide-awake American lads. In that volume and in those which followed I gave the particulars of their adventures while attending Putnam Hall Military Academy, Brill College, and while on numerous outings, both in our own country and abroad.

The Rover boys were, of course, growing older; and, having met three young ladies very much to their liking, each married and settled down, as related in detail in the several volumes immediately preceding this. They were well established in business; and in due course of time Dick Rover was blessed with a son, as was also Sam, while the fun-loving Tom became the proud possessor of a pair of twins who were as full of life as their father had ever been.

In this volume the younger Rover boys are old enough to go to boarding school. They are sent to Colby Hall Military Academy, presided over by an old friend and schoolmate of their fathers; and there they make both friends and enemies, and have numerous adventures.

In the beginning this chronicle of the younger Rovers, I wish to thank my numerous readers for all the kind things they have said about the other volumes in these series, and I trust that they will make just as good friends of Jack, Andy and Randy, and Fred as they did of Dick, Tom, and Sam Rover.

Affectionately and sincerely yours,

Edward Stratemeyer.

CONTENTS

Introducing the Younger Rovers1
Something of the Past13
What Followed Another Trick24
Jack in Wall Street35
Getting Ready to Leave45
On the Train54
A Scene in the Dining Car65
At Colby Hall76
The Missing Suitcase88
Getting Acquainted98
Down in the Cornfield109
Learning to Drill119
Fred Is Followed129
The Fight139
In the Town148
At the Moving Picture Theater157
The Girls from Clearwater Hall167
Slugger Brown Is Exposed178
A Squall on the Lake187
In Great Peril197
Assistance Refused206
The Meeting with Hixley High216
Target Practice226
The Fun of Hallowe'en235
Off on a Hunt245
From One Trouble to Another254
Elias Lacy's Demand265
In the Guardroom274
The Exposure284
A Football Victory—Conclusion296

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THE ROVER BOYS AT COLBY HALL OR THE STRUGGLES OF THE YOUNG CADETS

THE ROVER BOYS AT COLBY HALL

OR

THE STRUGGLES OF THE YOUNG CADETS