Jack Harvey's Adventures: or, The Rival Campers Among the Oyster Pirates

Jack Harvey's Adventures: or, The Rival Campers Among the Oyster Pirates
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Smith Ruel Perley. Jack Harvey's Adventures: or, The Rival Campers Among the Oyster Pirates

CHAPTER I. HARVEY MAKES AN ACQUAINTANCE

CHAPTER II. THE CABIN OF THE SCHOONER

CHAPTER III. DOWN THE BAY

CHAPTER IV. ABOARD THE BUG-EYE

CHAPTER V. THE LAW OF THE BAY

CHAPTER VI. THE WORKING OF THE LAW

CHAPTER VII. DREDGING FLEET TACTICS

CHAPTER VIII. A NIGHT’S POACHING

CHAPTER IX. FACES THROUGH THE TELESCOPE

CHAPTER X. FLIGHT AND DISASTER

CHAPTER XI. HARVEY SENDS A MESSAGE TO SHORE

CHAPTER XII. ESCAPE AT LAST

CHAPTER XIII. HENRY BURNS MAKES A DISCOVERY

CHAPTER XIV. HARVEY MEETS WITH A LOSS

CHAPTER XV. HENRY BURNS IN TROUBLE

CHAPTER XVI. ARTIE JENKINS COMES ABOARD

CHAPTER XVII. ARTIE JENKINS AT THE DREDGES

CHAPTER XVIII. THE BATTLE OF NANTICOKE RIVER

CHAPTER XIX. SURPRISES FOR JACK HARVEY

CHAPTER XX. THE PURSUIT OF THE BRANDT

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Jack Harvey stood at the foot of the companionway, for a moment, looking into the cabin, before he entered. There was a lamp burning dimly, fastened into a socket in a support that extended from the centre-board box to the ceiling. Its light sufficed for Harvey to see but vaguely at first, owing to a cloud of tobacco smoke that filled the stuffy cabin. It was warm there, however, for the cook-stove in the galley threw its comforting heat beyond the limits of that small place; and the warmth was decidedly agreeable to one coming in from the evening air.

Harvey entered and stood, waiting for his new acquaintance to join him. He could see objects soon more plainly. He perceived that the person who was emitting the volumes of smoke was a short, thick-set man, who was occupying one of the two wooden chairs that the cabin afforded. He was huddled all up in a heap, with his head submerged below the collar of his thick overcoat, out of which rim the smoke ascended, as though from the crater of a tiny volcano.

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A look of determination came into the face of Mr. Jenkins. It was as if he had made up his mind that Harvey should have no opportunity now of backing out.

“No, you don’t need to,” he said. “The captain’s got all that stuff, and he buys at wholesale, and you can get it cheaper of him. Wait till to-morrow, anyway, and if he can’t fit you, we’ll go ashore.”

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