Adventure stories; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Sailing -- Juvenile fiction; Ship captains -- Juvenile fiction
If the first volume is all story and adventure, those that follow it
will not be wholly given up to the details of the mechanic arts. The
captain has a steam-yacht; and the hero of the first story has a fine
sailboat, to say nothing of a whole fleet of other craft belonging to
the nabob. The boys are not of the tame sort: they are not of the
humdrum kind, and they are inclined to make things lively. In fact, they
are live boys, and the captain sometimes has his hands full in managing
them.
With this explanation, the author sends out the first volume with the
hope that this book and those which follow it will be as successful as
their numerous predecessors in pleasing his young friends--and his old
friends, he may add, as he treads the downhill of life.
DORCHESTER, MASS., AUG. 21, 1882.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. PAGE
A GROWLING PASSENGER 13
CHAPTER II.
A SHORT AND DECISIVE CONFLICT 24
CHAPTER III.
A BRILLIANT SCHEME MADE POSSIBLE 34
CHAPTER IV.
IN THE CABIN OF THE GOLDWING 45
CHAPTER V.
A BOAT WITH A BAD REPUTATION 55
CHAPTER VI.
THE ROBBERY AT THE HOTEL 66
CHAPTER VII.
THE MAN THAT LOOKED THROUGH THE KEYHOLE 76
CHAPTER VIII.
THE COLCHESTER CLUB CHANGES ITS NAME 87
CHAPTER IX.
A WEATHER HELM AND A LEE HELM 98
CHAPTER X.
THE MISSISQUOI IN PURSUIT 109
CHAPTER XI.
THE BEGINNING OF THE CHASE 119
CHAPTER XII.
A ROUGH TIME OF IT 129
CHAPTER XIII.
SAFE UNDER A LEE 140
CHAPTER XIV.
EARLY IN THE MORNING 150
CHAPTER XV.
THE STRATEGY OF THE CHASE 161
CHAPTER XVI.
A GRAVE CHARGE AGAINST THE SKIPPER 172
CHAPTER XVII.
DORY DORNWOOD DECIDES TO "FACE THE MUSIC" 183
CHAPTER XVIII.
DORY LOCKS HIS PASSENGERS INTO THE CABIN 194
CHAPTER XIX.
PEARL HAWLINSHED RESORTS TO VIOLENCE 205
CHAPTER XX.
MR. PEPPERS FINDS THE TABLES TURNED 215
CHAPTER XXI.
Another Element in the Contest 226
CHAPTER XXII.
THE GAME AMONG THE SHALLOWS 237
CHAPTER XXIII.
HEADED OFF ON BOTH SIDES 247
CHAPTER XXIV.
THROUGH VARIED STRIFE AND STRUGGLES 257
CHAPTER XXV.
WIND SOUTH-SOUTH-WEST BLOWING FRESH 268
CHAPTER XXVI.
DORY DORNWOOD MANOEUVRES TO ESCAPE 278
CHAPTER XXVII.
DORY MAKES A HARBOR FOR THE NIGHT 289
CHAPTER XXVIII.
TERRIBLE INTELLIGENCE FROM HOME 300
CHAPTER XXIX.
CAPTAIN GILDROCK HAS DECIDED OBJECTIONS 310
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