The Thunder Bird
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B. M. Bower. The Thunder Bird
The Thunder Bird
Table of Contents
CHAPTER. I JOHNNY ASSUMES A DEBT OF HONOR II AND THE CAT CAME BACK III JOHNNY WOULD DO STUNTS IV MARY V TO THE RESCUE V GODS OR SOMETHING VI FAME WAITS UPON JOHNNY VII MERELY TWO POINTS OF VIEW VIII SUDDEN MUST DO SOMETHING IX GIVING THE COLT HIS HEAD X LOCHINVAR UP TO DATE XI JOHNNY WILL NOT BE A NICE BOY XII THE THUNDER BIRD TAKES WING XIII THE HEGIRA OF JOHN IVAN JEWEL XIV FATE MEETS JOHNNY SMILING XV ONE MORE PLUNGE FOR JOHNNY XVI WITH HIS HANDS FULL OF MONEY AND HIS EYES SHUT XVII "MY JOB'S FLYING" XVIII INTO MEXICO AND RETURN XIX BUT JOHNNY WAS NEITHER FOOL NOR KNAVE XX MARY V TAKES THE TRAIL XXI JOHNNY IS NOT PAID TO THINK XXII JOHNNY MAKES UP HIS MIND XXIII JOHNNY ACTS BOLDLY XXIV THE THUNDER BIRD'S LAST FLIGHT FOR JOHNNY XXV OVER THE TELEPHONE. CHAPTER ONE
JOHNNY ASSUMES A DEBT OF HONOR
CHAPTER TWO
AND THE CAT CAME BACK
CHAPTER THREE
JOHNNY WOULD DO STUNTS
CHAPTER FOUR
MARY V TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER FIVE
GODS OR SOMETHING
CHAPTER SIX
FAME WAITS UPON JOHNNY
CHAPTER SEVEN
MERELY TWO POINTS OF VIEW
CHAPTER EIGHT
SUDDEN MUST DO SOMETHING
CHAPTER NINE
GIVING THE COLT HIS HEAD
CHAPTER TEN
LOCHINVAR UP TO DATE
CHAPTER ELEVEN
JOHNNY WILL NOT BE A NICE BOY
BIRDMAN FURNISHES NEW SENSATION!
CHAPTER TWELVE
THE THUNDER BIRD TAKES WING
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
TEE HEGIRA OF JOHN IVAN JEWEL
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
FATE MEETS JOHNNY SMILING
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
ONE MORE PLUNGE FOR JOHNNY
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
WITH HIS HANDS FULL OF MONEY AND HIS EYES SHUT
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
"MY JOB'S FLYING"
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
INTO MEXICO AND RETURN
CHAPTER NINETEEN
BUT JOHNNY WAS NEITHER FOOL NOR KNAVE
CHAPTER TWENTY
MARY V TAKES THE TRAIL
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
JOHNNY IS NOT PAID TO THINK
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
JOHNNY MAKES UP HIS MIND
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
JOHNNY ACTS BOLDLY
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
THE THUNDER BIRD'S LAST FLIGHT FOR JOHNNY
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
OVER THE TELEPHONE
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B. M. Bower
Published by Good Press, 2019
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There is no dodging the finality of Uncle Sam's no. They had not wanted Johnny Jewel to fly for fame and his country's honor. And if he sold his own airplane, how then would he fly? How could he ever hope to be in the game as long as Bland had been? How could he do anything but go back meekly to the Rolling R Ranch and ride bronks for Mary V's father, and be hailed as Skyrider still, who had no more any hope of riding the sky?
Gloom at last plumbed the depths of Johnny's soul, and showed him where grew the root of his unalterable determination to combat Mary V's plan to have him at the ranch. Much as he loved Mary V he would hate going back to the dull routine of ranch life. (And after all, a youth like Johnny loves nothing quite so much as his air castles.) As a rider of bronks he was spoiled, he who had ridden triumphant the high air lanes. He had talked of paying his debt to Sudden, he had talked of his self-respect and his honesty and his pride—but above and beyond them all he was fighting to save his castle in the air. Debt or no debt, he could never go back to the Rolling R and be a rancher. Lying there under his airplane and staring up at the starred purple of the night he knew that he could not go back.
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