Bert Wilson at the Wheel

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Duffield J. W.. Bert Wilson at the Wheel

CHAPTER I. The “Red Scout”

CHAPTER II. The Flying Auto

CHAPTER III. The Copperhead

CHAPTER IV. The Challenge

CHAPTER V. The Hoboes and the Bees

CHAPTER VI. Shorty Goes to the Ant

CHAPTER VII. The Ants Go Milking

CHAPTER VIII. The Gipsy Caravan

CHAPTER IX. How the “Red Scout” Climbed Dobb’s Hill

CHAPTER X. Quick Work

CHAPTER XI. The Four-Legged Recruit

CHAPTER XII. The Youngsters’ Great Day

CHAPTER XIII. Dave’s Tiger Story

CHAPTER XIV. With Death Behind

CHAPTER XV. Mountain Scouting

CHAPTER XVI. By a Hair’s-Breadth

CHAPTER XVII. Biddy Harrigan Remembers

CHAPTER XVIII. The Race

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A group of the campers stood regarding the big red touring car rather dubiously.

“The fact is,” Bob Ward was saying, as he meditatively chewed a long piece of grass, “you never can tell when the fool thing is going to go back on you. I used to drive my uncle’s car a good deal, but I never could go very far without some part of the machinery breaking down. Uncle Jack said I was a Jonah and I guess I was, because he could run the pesky thing all over the country if I wasn’t with him, and it would go like a bird. One day I ran it into a fence and nearly got killed, so I took the hint and haven’t fooled with one since.”

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As it quickened its speed and disappeared around a bend of the road, more than one of the boys at the camp wished he had been quicker to offer his services.

“If I’d only known that Bert would be here I’d been one of the first to volunteer, but I must say I wasn’t anxious to trust my neck to Bob’s safe-keeping. He doesn’t know any more about running an automobile than I do;” and when Jim said that he was saying a great deal.

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