The Boys of Crawford's Basin

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Hamp Sidford Frederick. The Boys of Crawford's Basin

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. Big Reuben’s Raid

CHAPTER II. Crawford’s Basin

CHAPTER III. Yetmore’s Mistake

CHAPTER IV. Lost In The Clouds

CHAPTER V. What We Found in the Pool

CHAPTER VI. Long John Butterfield

CHAPTER VII. The Hermit’s Warning

CHAPTER VIII. The Wild Cat’s Trail

CHAPTER IX. The Underground Stream

CHAPTER X. How Tom Connor Went Boring for Oil

CHAPTER XI. Tom’s Second Window

CHAPTER XII. Tom Connor’s Scare

CHAPTER XIII. The Ore-theft

CHAPTER XIV. The Snow-Slide

CHAPTER XV. The Big Reuben Vein

CHAPTER XVI. The Wolf With Wet Feet

CHAPTER XVII. The Draining of the “Forty Rods“

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“Wake up, boys! Wake up! Tumble out, there! Quick! Big Reuben’s into the pig-pen again!”

Our bedroom door was banged wide open, and my father stood before us – a startling apparition – dressed only in his night-shirt and a pair of boots, carrying a stable-lantern in one hand and a rifle in the other.

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At length, thinking it should be near enough, I ceased pulling, when Joe straightened up, reached out, and, to my great delight, when he withdrew his hand the gun was in it.

Ah! What a difference it made in our situation!

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