"It sounds like a great place for a husky young fellow," blithely quoted Walter, and Devlin indulged in a reminiscent grin. "I think I told you something like that once upon a time," said he. "You spoke words of wisdom," was Walter's emphatic verdict. "I am sure that father and mother will agree that your advice was gilt-edged. I am not looking for easy work. I want to help dig the Panama Canal. It will be something to feel proud of all my life. And before the Culebra Cut is finished and the big ships go sailing through, I intend to be a full-fledged steam-shovel man." THE END BOOKS BY RALPH D. PAINE _The Dragon and the Cross_ Illustrated, 12mo. $1.25 A lively story of how the son of an American missionary in China taught some Chinese boys foot-ball and how the knowledge helped in one of the native risings against the foreigners. A thrilling tale of fighting, travel, and adventure. _The Wrecking Master_ Illustrated, 12mo. $1.25 "Will be read with pleasure by the many boys to whom the sea speaks with an inviting voice."--_New York Herald._ "It's always good to read the story of a lad who makes his way and earns the love of fellow beings by his manliness. And when the story is told with spirit and deals with life upon the sea one thinks that it's the best sort of a book for boys--yes, and young men."--_Chicago Inter Ocean._ _A Cadet of the Black Star Line_ Illustrated, 12mo. $1.25 "Mr. Paine's narrative of the experiences of a cadet on one of the big ocean liners moves along with splendid spirit." --_Philadelphia Press._ "A stirring tale of sea life, the breezes of the ocean blowing through every chapter.... Clean, wholesome reading." --_New York Observer._ _COLLEGE SERIES_ "In his stories of sport, Ralph Paine accomplishes considerable in the right direction. He shows the reader the sport itself, and not only the final-moment peep at it. He preaches subtly, too, for cleanness in athletics, and I doubt not that his books have done a great deal toward imbuing young men with a proper conception of the honest red-blood world of muscle."--W. W. AULICK in _The Bookman_. _Campus Days_ Illustrated, 12mo. $1.50 Ralph Paine writes of college life and adventure with a knowledge, humor, and genial liveliness that bring foot-ball games, classrooms, campus, and undergraduates vividly before us. In this new book he tells of grinds and sports, of athletes and loafers, of their troubles, their triumphs, their sentimental adventures and hare-brained escapades. _The Stroke Oar_ Illustrated, 12mo. $1.50 "A wholesome, vigorous story."--_Chicago Tribune._ "A jolly, rollicking, bully narration."--_Boston Globe._ "Good, clean, and wholesome, filled with the atmosphere of athletic and out-of-door living and thinking." --_Richmond Times-Dispatch._ "The hero is a first-rate story and his mistakes and triumphs make a first-rate story."--_Boston Transcript._ CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK _Sandy Sawyer, Sophomore_