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The Campers Out; or, the Right Path and the Wrong
The story centers on a group of boys—Jim McGovern, Tom Wagstaff, and Billy Waylett—who concoct a mischievous scheme to run away for adventure in the West, driven by wild dreams of hunting Native Americans and grizzly bears.
"The Campers Out; Or, The Right Path and the Wrong" by Edward Sylvester Ellis is a fiction novel. The story centers on a group of boys—Jim McGovern, Tom Wagstaff, and Billy Waylett—who concoct a mischievous scheme to run away for adventure in the West, driven by wild dreams of hunting Native Americans and grizzly bears.
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Jim McGovern was poring over his lesson one afternoon in the Ashton public school, perplexed by the thought that unless he mastered the problem on which he was engaged he would be kept after the dismissal of the rest, when he was startled by the fall of a twisted piece of paper on his slate.
He looked around to learn its starting point, when he observed Tom Wagstaff, who was seated on the other side of the room, peeping over the top of his book at him. Tom gave a wink which said plainly enough that it was he who had flipped the message so dexterously across the intervening space.
Jim next glanced at the teacher, who was busy with a small girl that had gone to his desk for help in her lessons. The coast being clear, so to speak, he unfolded the paper and read:
“Meat Bill Waylett and me after scool at the cross roads, for the bizness is of the utmoast importants dont fale to be there for the iurn is hot and we must strike be4 it gits cool.
The meaning of this note, despite its Volapük construction, was clear, and Jim felt that he must be on hand at all hazards.
So the urchin applied himself with renewed vigor to his task, and, mastering it, found himself among the happy majority that were allowed to leave school at the hour of dismissal. A complication, however, arose from the fact that the writer of the note was one of those who failed with his lesson, and was obliged to stay with a half-dozen others until he recited it correctly.
Contents
- 01Chapter I—The Plotters
- 02Chapter II—How the Scheme Worked
- 03Chapter III—A Startling Occurrence
- 04Chapter IV—The Runaways
- 05Chapter V—The Way of the Transgressor
- 06Chapter VI—Sowing Seed
- 07Chapter VII—One Afternoon in Autumn
- 08Chapter VIII—Fellow-Passengers
- 09Chapter IX—Dick Halliard
- 10Chapter X—A Startling Summons
- 11Chapter XI—No Joke
- 12Chapter XII—The Victim of a Mistake.
- 13Chapter XIII—Adrift in the Swamp
- 14Chapter XIV—Host and Guests
- 15Chapter XV—The Forest Path
- 16Chapter XVI—The Plotters
- 17Chapter XVII—A Brave Exploit
- 18Chapter XVIII—An Act of Forgetfulness
- 19Chapter XIX—An Error of Judgment
- 20Chapter XX—The Baying of a Hound
- 21Chapter XXI—“Help! Help!”
- 22Chapter XXII—Hot Quarters
- 23Chapter XXIII—A Brilliant Shot
- 24Chapter XXIV—Suspicious Footprints
- 25Chapter XXV—Up a Tree
- 26Chapter XXVI—Hunting the Hunters
- 27Chapter XXVII—A Race for Life
- 28Chapter XXVIII—A Cry from the Darkness
- 29Chapter XXIX—A Sad Discovery
- 30Chapter XXX—A Friend Indeed
- 31Chapter XXXI—Dick Halliard Is Astounded
- 32Chapter XXXII—How It Happened
- 33Chapter XXXIII—Conclusion
About this edition
- Author
- Edward Sylvester Ellis
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 201 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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