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Castlemon Harry. The Young Wild-Fowlers
The Young Wild-Fowlers
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. AT EGAN’S HOME
CHAPTER II. THE MAN IN THE SINK-BOAT
CHAPTER III. BARR’S BIG GUN
CHAPTER IV. AT SCHOOL AGAIN
CHAPTER V. LESTER IS WAKED UP
CHAPTER VI. A DINNER IN PROSPECT
CHAPTER VII. A SURPRISE
CHAPTER VIII. A DESPERATE UNDERTAKING
CHAPTER IX. LESTER BRIGHAM’S STRATEGY
CHAPTER X. AN ALARM AND A STAMPEDE
CHAPTER XI. A TREACHEROUS COACHMAN
CHAPTER XII “FALL IN FOR DINNER!”
CHAPTER XIII. THE BIG-GUNNER’S CABIN
CHAPTER XIV “I’LL TROUBLE YOU FOR THEM THOUSAND.”
CHAPTER XV. A SWIM FOR LIBERTY
CHAPTER XVI. LOST IN THE MARSHES
CHAPTER XVII. CONCLUSION
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Harry Castlemon
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“What makes them so valuable?” asked Curtis. “They don’t look as though they are worth feeding.”
“I know they are not handsome, but they are very useful,” replied Egan. “They are called Chesapeake Bay dogs, and they belong to a breed that are considered to be the best retrievers in the world. You don’t need a boat to pick up your wounded ducks when you have one of these fellows in the blind with you, and neither do you have to tell him when to go out after a bird. If you kill half a dozen ducks and wound one, he will swim straight through the dead ones and take after the wounded one; and he’ll have it, too, before he comes back to the shore. That one,” continued Egan, pointing to the largest of the dogs, “once swam more than three miles through floating ice in pursuit of a wing-tipped canvas-back. Father was in the blind with me, and he was so very much afraid that he was going to lose the dog, that he sent me out in a boat to pick him up. When I overtook him he had the bird, and was striking out for the shore, apparently none the worse for his long cold swim. Dogs of this breed are very enduring while they last, but in the end they are laid up with rheumatism, just as a man would be who spent his life as they do. Now, come with me, and I will show you the swiftest and handiest little boat on the bay. I call her a cutter for short, and that is what almost every one else calls her; but she isn’t a cutter—she’s a yawl.”
