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 ...