"Look at the chart, Dick. Unless I'm off in my reckoning, those blue things in the distance, that look like clouds, are the mountains of ...

Carl Pretzel was singing. If anyone with an ear for music had heard him they might have guessed that he was selling fish, or buying old ...

"Motor Matt!" "What is it, captain?" "We are in St. George's Bay, ten miles from the Port of Belize, British Honduras. Two days ago, ...

There is a speed limit for automobiles in the City of New Orleans, but a certain red touring car on this Wednesday morning gave little ...

"Py shiminy grickets!" "Well, strike me lucky!" "Can I pelieve vat I see mit my eyes, Tick, or haf I got der plind shtaggers?" "I'm ...

"Lisden, vonce, you fellers! I t'ink I hear someding." Carl Pretzel turned back from the forward rail of the Hawk, gave his chums, ...

"Py shinks, aber dot's funny! Dose fellers look like dey vas birates, or some odder scalawags. Vat vas dey doing, anyvays, in a blace ...

"Your name King?" "Yes." "You de feller dey calls Motor Matt?" "You've struck it." "Chee! I seen yer mug in de poipers an' I t'ought ...

"Py chimineddy!" muttered Carl Pretzel to himself, starting up on the couch, where he had been snatching forty winks by way of passing ...

"Py shiminy grickets! Vat do you t'ink oof dot! See dere vonce, Matt. A palloon, or I vas a lopsder! Und vat a funny palloon it iss." ...

"Vat's der madder mit you? Ach, du lieber! Vaid a minid! For vy you do dot monkey-doodle pitzness? Hoop-a-la! Oof it vas a fighdt, den ...

"Oh, py shiminy! Look at dere, vonce! Vat it iss, Matt? Br-r-r! I feel like I vould t'row some fits righdt on der shpot! It's a shpook, ...

"Help! Some ob yo' folks ahead, dar! Unc' Tawm's in de ruvver! He drapped de box, an' went in afteh hit head first lak er frawg. He's ...

Whiz, bang! "Dutchee boy no good! Have gotee mon, no makee pay. Whoosh! Allee same cheap skate!" Whiz, bang, clatter, bang! "Vat's ...

"Ye're afeared! Yah, that's what ye are! Motor Matt's scared, an' I never thought ye was afeared o' nothin'. Go ahead! I dare ye!" An ...

"Ready, Perk?" "Hold up there, Chub! Don't ye git in sich a tarnal hurry. What am I goin' to do with this here rope?" "Why, cast it ...

"Shade o' Gallopin' Dick! Say, allow me to rise an' explain that I kin ride anythin' from a hoss to a streak o' greased lightnin'. I ...

"Hello, peaches!" The girl in the calico dress turned quickly. There was a startled look in her brown eyes, and she drew back a little ...

It was a magnificent evening, in balmy June, on the far-famed St. Lawrence. The steamer "St. Lawrence" was making her nightly ...