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Example in this ebookCHAPTER I The Mystery HuntersThe High School at Cloverfield was quiet as the hands of the clock approached the three-o’clock hour. Then a gong pealed out and the building became a very beehive of sound. The thump of many feet and the hum of voices was heard. Healthy, wholesome young boys and girls poured out of the side doors and swarmed over the campus. Overcoats were pulled tighter as the nip of the keen Vermont air was encountered.Two boys had come out together, and they paused to wait for two others. The boy with the clean-cut, manly face and the sparkling eyes was Barry Garrison, an outstanding boy in the Cloverfield High School. He had been the right halfback on the school team this year and had helped to lead it to a glorious record of no defeats and first place on the Conference list. He was an all-around athlete and stood well in his senior-year studies. Although Barry Garrison would have turned the idea aside with a good-natured laugh, he was the most popular boy in the high school.His lifelong chum was Kent Marple. Kent’s father owned the local hotel, and the boy had enjoyed many advantages in life. He and Barry had been friends ever since they had been small boys. Young Marple was broader than Barry, with a heavy shock of black hair and a chin that was a trifle determined. He had played fullback on the football team during the past season.These two boys did not seem to be in any hurry. Barry leaned against a maple tree and whistled softly, while Kent glanced from one side door of the school to the other.“The twins must have been kept in,” Barry observed.“Maybe they are clapping erasers for the teacher,” Kent grinned.“If they are, they’ll clap ’em clean,” Barry laughed. “The Ford twins always finish what they start. Here they come now.”Two boys came springing down the steps of the school building and looked around for Barry and Kent. When they had seen their particular friends, one of them waved, and then both boys dashed across the hard ground toward the boys under the trees. At first glance there was little to distinguish between Mac and Tim Ford. They were both the same height and build, stocky young fellows who had made splendid ends on the team. But at closer range some differences were apparent. Mac was sandy-haired, and Tim was gifted with a light brown mass of hair that sometimes managed to stay combed. Both boys had attractive, lively countenances and were well liked by everyone in the small town. They were often the leaders in the fun and could always be counted on to join in any kind of a lark. With Kent and Barry, they made up a quartet that was widely known.Mac Ford beat his brother to the maple tree by a yard. “Thought we never would get out,” he panted. “Took Tim’s advice in a problem, and it was wrong. Had to do it over.”“The trouble is that you didn’t take my advice,” Tim denied. “I tried to show you how to work it, but——”“Never mind,” Barry interposed, thrusting his hands deep into his sweater pockets. “Let’s move along. It’s cold today.”“It ought to be,” Kent observed. “Christmas is almost here.”Two high-school boys and a girl passed them and nodded and smiled. “There they go,” the girl cried. “The mystery hunters!”“Four Sherlocks, the locker-room detectives!” chimed in one of the boys. When this trio had passed on, the four chums looked at one another.“They seem to keep calling us the mystery hunters,” Barry smiled.“Just because we found out who was stealing things out of the lockers,” grunted Tim. “That wasn’t such a big job.”“Anybody could have done it, if he had taken the trouble to,” Kent said.“The biggest surprise about the whole thing was the fact that a boy like Carter Wolf was doing it,” Mac put in.To be continue in this ebook

This enchanting book tells the stories of twenty-four different dogs and is accompanied by many beautiful etchings done by Diana Thorne. The contents include: Aeroplane, the Dog who Turned Wolf; Satan, the War Dog; Abdul Hamid, the Dog who Was Not; A Nameless Mongrel, who Repaid a Kindness; Flash, Pointing a Mile-Distant Pheasant; Wotan, the Police Dog who Fought a Leopard; Roger, the Church-Going Bloodhound; Grip, the Eighteenth Century Canine Thief; Halil, the Saluki Hero of a Strange Contest; Wolf, Our Great Little Collie; Vigi, the Hero Dog of the Vikings; Mafeking, a War Dog of South Africa; Wallace, Glasgow's Immortal Fire Dog; Bobbie, the Three-Thousand-Mile Collie; Sport, A Battle with Wolves for a Baby's Life; Karroo, the Terrier Named for a Desert; Lory the Lurid, a Right Disreputable Dog; Rex, Missing for Six Weeks; Gengisk, the Dog Who Saved a King; Fang, the Seventeenth Century Dog Detective; Pegeen, the Dog who Learned to Reason; Trick, a Lurcher with a Queer History; Hector, the Mischief Dog; and Paddy, a Mongrel, but a Great Little Dog.

Linda Carlton receives a brand-new airplane from her father for her high school graduation. Linda is thrilled, and immediately signs up for flight lessons. Linda had hoped that Ted Mackay would be her instructor, but Mr. Carlton forbids Linda from having anything to do with him. Mr. Carlton has had problems with Mackay's father, and is certain that the son is bad as well.Ralph Clavering, a wealthy college student who likes Linda, also signs up for flight lessons. After completing their coursework, both of them are awarded their licenses. Linda and Ralph fly to Green Falls, where the young people are to spend their summer.During the journey, a valuable necklace that belongs to Ralph's sister is stolen. Due to circumstantial evidence, Ted Mackay is blamed for the theft, although Linda is certain that he is not responsible.Linda Carlton, Air PilotRalph is convinced that Ted Mackay is guilty, and Linda's friendship with Ralph is strained. Linda comes up with a plan to help Ted, and she departs in her plane with her best friend, Louise Haydock, in hopes of establishing a solid alibi for Ted Mackay.

The exciting and true to fact adventures in the "present" war of the 17 year old American Dave Dawson and his 16 year old English friend Freddy Farmer. Written by a former R.A.F. flyer who is an expert both in story telling and in aviation, technical and military matters, these thrilling action stories are full of accurate information and are educational and instructive.

“Two little girls make an old wooden spout which empties into a village street their trysting place, and imagine the spout to be the home of the quaint ‘Little Woman’ who helps them out of their childish troubles and shares their joys. They take a little bond-girl into the secret and befriend her when wrongly accused of stealing.”The Publisher’s Weekly – September 1902“‘It was all happily brought about by the dear Little Woman in the Spout’Who was the ‘Little Woman in the Spout’? It was a wooden spout from which the water poured into an ideal gutter with cobble stones. The little girls discovered it one day and called it ‘The Little Woman’s House.’ Of course, they never saw the ‘Little Woman’ herself, but when they placed any prize article inside her house – a doll, or toy – would be missing on their next visit, and of course the Little Woman was there and had taken it in. Children will enjoy this little girl’s story with pleasant times spiced with adventure that all comes out happily in the end”Primary Education – March 1903“The mythical being that two little girls imagined a ‘Little Woman’ who had her home in a wooden spout that discharged its contents into a rain barrel is the central figure of the story called: ‘The Little Woman in the Spout’, by Mary Agnes Byrne. They played around the spout and said the Little Woman did various things but could not prove it, for they never saw her. By and by they were joined by another little girl, one who had been taken out of ‘Home’ and who lived across the way. She was known as a ‘Bound Girl’, but that made no difference to her little playmates. Lottie, for that was her name, had much drudgery to perform, could not go to school regularly, and did not have the pleasures other children had. The daughter of her mistress tyrannized over her. Finally she made good friends with a neighboring family and all ended well for Lottie and her playmates.”The School Journal – December 1902This classic children's book by Maty Agnes Byrne is now available as a high-quality ebook!