The Flying Stingaree: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
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Goodwin Harold Leland. The Flying Stingaree: A Rick Brant Science-Adventure Story
THE FLYING STINGAREE
CHAPTER I. Chesapeake Bay
CHAPTER II. The Flying Stingaree
CHAPTER III. Orvil Harris, Crabber
CHAPTER IV. Steve's Place
CHAPTER V. The Face Is Familiar
CHAPTER VI. The Saucer Sighters
CHAPTER VII. Sighting Data
CHAPTER VIII. Calvert's Favor
CHAPTER IX. The Duck Blind
CHAPTER X. Ken Holt Comes Through
CHAPTER XI. On the Bottom
CHAPTER XII. Night Recovery
CHAPTER XIII. The Night Watchers
CHAPTER XIV. Daybreak
CHAPTER XV. The Empty Boat
CHAPTER XVI. Steve Waits It Out
CHAPTER XVII. Crowd at Martins Creek
CHAPTER XVIII. The Stingaree's Tail
CHAPTER XIX. Lucky Lefty
CHAPTER XX. Hunt the Wide Waters
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The stingaree swam slowly through the warm waters of Chesapeake Bay. Geography meant nothing to the ray, whose sole interest in life was food, but his position – had he known it – was in the channel that runs between Poplar Island and the town of Wittman on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The ray was also directly in the path of an odd-looking cruising houseboat, the Spindrift, that had just rounded the north point of Poplar Island and entered the channel.
The sting ray's color was an olive brown, so dark in tone that he looked like wet black leather. He was roughly diamond-shaped, like a kite, with rounded sides. He had a long, slim tail that carried vicious barbs along the base of its upper side. It was from the barbs, which served as defensive weapons, that the name sting ray, or stingaree, derived. The ray was harmless to men – unless one chanced to step on him as he lay resting on the bottom ooze. At such rare times, his tail would lash up, inflicting a serious and painful wound.
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"Seen any recently?" Scotty inquired.
"Two nights ago. Always see 'em about dusk. Real plain, against the sky. Sun hits 'em when they get high enough. They shine, sometimes silver, sometimes red."
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