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Telegram, sir. "Who for?" "Dave Dashaway." "I'll take it." The messenger boy who had just entered the hangar of the great prize monoplane of the aero meet at Columbus, stared wonderingly about him while the man in charge of the place receipted for the telegram. The lad had never been in so queer a place before. He was a lively, active city boy, but the closest he had ever seen an airship was a distance away and five hundred feet up in the air. Now, with big wonder eyes he stared at the strange appearing machine. His fingers moved restlessly, like a street-urchin surveying an automobile and longing to blow its horn. The man in charge of the place attracted his attention, too.

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A very smart and adventurous Dave Dashaway is here again to delight us in this fun-filled series, Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane. More and more boys would gladly read his stories. This Volume II is about Dave's striving to follow his career as a boy pretending to be a bird, and had so many exciting exploits, hovering above the Great lakes, and some other feats such as thrashing Canadian rustlers.Roy Rockwood was a house fictional name made use by the Stratemeyer Syndicate for young boy's adventure stories. The pen name is mostly well-recognized for the Bomba the Jungle Boy and Great Marvel series.Here are some of the Stratemeyer Syndicate's serials: Deep Sea; Great Marvel --Volumes 1-5 and 8 ghostwritten by Howard R. Garis; Speedwell Boys; Dave Dashaway; Dave Fearless; Bomba, the Jungle Boy - a number ghostwritten by John William Duffield.A few of these series were also ghostwritten by Leslie McFarlane and W. Bert Foster.Edward Stratemeyer had first made use of the pen name, Roy Rockwood, for the story The Wizard of the Sea; or a Trip Under the Ocean, issued by the Mershon Company in 1900.Edward L. Stratemeyer was a United States publisher and author of stories for little kids. He was among the highly successful writers internationally, publishing more than 1,300 copies himself, marketing more than 500 million replications. He also wrote countless popular fictitious book series for children, such as The Rover Boys, The Bobbsey Twins, Tom Swift, The Hardy Boys, and Nancy Drew series, a number of which sold millions of replications and are still in print at present. On Stratemeyer's legacy, Fortune wrote: "As oil had its Rockefeller, literature had its Stratemeyer." As he grows up, Edward was passionate about the works of Horatio Alger and William T. Adams, authors who wrote something about a person from being poor to getting rich. These tales immensely inspired him.

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THE BABY RACERThat was the name of the new vehicle.And the Baby Racer would propel Dave Dashaway into an exciting new adventure!Dave Dashaway was a young pilot in the exciting first years of aviation in the early twentieth century when most things that flew with a motor were biplanes. When his father, a noted balloonist, died a mean old skinflint named Silas Warner had been appointed his guardian. Despite Silas Warner's machinations, Dave's natural love for aeronautics won out, and he'd already had adventures on his way to becoming a well-known pilot.Hiram Dobbs was Dave's friend. Together the two would have an even more exciting adventure with hydroplanes on the Great Lakes.It started with a fateful telegram. And then a plane was stolen! But the crooks were in a plot far bigger than just plane theft.Would the next landing for Dave Dashaway be a watery grave?

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