"Your cayuse is quiet as a lamb now, isn't he, Jo," inquired Jim. "He ought to be by this time," I replied. "You wouldn't expect him to ...

The West Indian liner, Tropic Queen, one of the great vessels owned by the big shipping combine at whose head was Jacob Jukes, the New ...

"Up with your helm there, Noddy! Luff her up or you'll have the Curlew on the rocks!" "That's right, luff!" cried Billy Raynor, adding ...

Ned Strong and his cousin Herc Taylor leave farm life to join the United States Navy. Their adventures are cataloged in six volumes...

One breezy day in early June, when a fresh wind offshore was whipping the water into sparkling white caps, excitement, and comment ...

There was a sudden stir in the forward section of the stuffy, crowded railway coach. The interruption to the stolid apathy that had ...

"Isn't it a dandy picture—the real thing—just as I've always imagined it? Herc!" Ned Strong wheeled from the gaudily colored lithograph ...

“Pardon me—but surely I am not mistaken,—you two young men are brave sailors on board the Beale?” “Hum; don’t know about the ‘brave ...

“So your final answer is no?” “Yes. And with a big N, Mr. Ferriss. I have put my best work of head and hand into the Lockyer submarine, ...

“This is Golden Gate Park, Herc.” “Huh,” responded the red-headed lad, whom we know as Herc Taylor, gazing about him, “where are the ...

Twenty days out from San Francisco in the vast, heaving desert of the sea, twenty days of storm, sunshine, and calm, the Sea Gypsy, the ...

Juarez was sleepy, very sleepy. He had been traveling on a railroad train for several days, and while ordinarily, he could adapt himself ...

On a certain May afternoon, Tom Jessop, assigned to "cover" the Seattle waterfront for his paper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, had ...