What Happened at Quasi: The Story of a Carolina Cruise

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Eggleston George Cary. What Happened at Quasi: The Story of a Carolina Cruise

I. INTERSTATE CHUMMING

II. THE STORY OF QUASI

III. A PROGRAMME – SUBJECT TO CIRCUMSTANCES

IV. TOM FIGHTS IT OUT

V. A RATHER BAD NIGHT

VI. A LITTLE SPORT BY THE WAY

VII. AN ENEMY IN CAMP

VIII. CAL BEGINS TO DO THINGS

IX. A FANCY SHOT

X. TOM’S DISCOVERIES

XI. PERILOUS SPYING

XII. TOM’S DARING VENTURE

XIII. CAL’S EXPERIENCE AS THE PRODIGAL SON

XIV. CAL RELATES A FABLE

XV. CAL GATHERS THE MANNA

XVI. FOG BOUND

XVII. THE OBLIGATION OF A GENTLEMAN

XVIII. FIGHT OR FAIR PLAY

XIX. WHY LARRY WAS READY FOR BATTLE

XX. ABOARD THE CUTTER

XXI. TOM’S SCOUTING SCHEME

XXII. TOM DISCOVERS THINGS

XXIII. TOM AND THE MAN WITH THE GAME LEG

XXIV. THE LAME MAN’S CONFESSION

XXV. A SIGNAL OF DISTRESS

XXVI. AN UNEXPECTED INTERRUPTION

XXVII. THE HERMIT OF QUASI

XXVIII. RUDOLF DUNBAR’S ACCOUNT OF HIMSELF

XXIX. TOM FINDS THINGS

XXX. DUNBAR TALKS AND SLEEPS

XXXI. DUNBAR’S STRANGE BEHAVIOR

XXXII. A RAINY DAY WITH DUNBAR

XXXIII. A GREAT CATASTROPHE

XXXIV. MAROONED AT QUASI

XXXV. AGAIN TOM FINDS SOMETHING

XXXVI. WHAT THE EARTH GAVE UP

XXXVII. TOM’S FINAL “FIND”

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Major Rutledge entertained the boys at supper with accounts of his own experiences along the coast during the war, and incidentally gave them a good deal of detailed information likely to be useful to them in their journeyings. But he gave them no instructions and no cautions. He firmly believed that youths of their age and intelligence ought to know how to take care of themselves, and that if they did not it was high time for them to learn in the school of experience. He knew these to be courageous boys, manly, self-reliant, intelligent, and tactful. He was, therefore, disposed to leave them to their own devices, trusting to their wits to meet any emergencies that might arise.

One bit of assistance of great value he did give them, namely, a complete set of coast charts, prepared by the government officials at Washington.

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“Bluff?” asked Tom, scanning the shore. “I don’t see any bluff.”

“Why there – straight ahead, and not five hundred yards away.”

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