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Happy days : a paper for young and old, v. VIII, no. 200, August 13, 1898.
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Tousey, Frank. Shackleford, H. K. (Harvey King), 1841-1906.
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9 January 2014
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English
Publish Date
1898-08-13
Publisher
New York : Frank Tousey
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Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title
Tom Taylor, The Boy Who Worried Blanco; or, How He Won His Stars. A story of the Spanish-American War / by H. K. Shackleford. How He Won His Stars.
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Popular literature > Specimens. Story papers > Specimens. Spanish-American War, 1898 > Juvenile fiction.
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“WHAPrFY
DAYS
ceived instructions to look out for a yacht
calle d the Avenger.”
“The Avenger! Ah! I know nothing
of that.
“e What is the name of your vessel, sir?”
“ The Lady Claire, You will see that for
ourself,”
y Sinbad had foreseen this visit, and he
had taken precautions. The name Aven-
had been painted out, and that of Lady
. Claire substitu
ers what is sihis yacht, Avenger, want-
f
“The owner has committed some great
crime against the British laws.”
“Va al don’t flatter me, but do I
look Tike the perpetrator of a dreadful
crime
“ No. no no, but still——”
“ Your, yacht answers the description
se)
a Seautiful stone this,” said Sinbad,
changing the conversation with startlin
abruptness, indicating an immense bril-
Nant vhich glittered on his finger as he
spo
“ Tt is superb.”
“Take it, on your own finger,
+ You will be able to judge it better so.
‘The official looked at it covetously, and
as he was about to hand it back, Sinbad
prevented him from doing so
*Oblige me by keeping ‘it, sir,” said
Sinbad.. “It seems to me it even looks
better on your hand than on mine, don't
sons agree with m
The official, overwhelmed with the mage
nificence of the gift, stammered out
thanks,
“Iow foolish of me,” he said, “I was
abont to arrest your ship. What could
have possessed me to make such a terrible
mistake
“The best of men make them.”
They were at the gangway now, and the
visitor bade Sinbad a cordial good-by.
Then ine went off in his boat,
e Miggs was looking on, and was
surprised at the termination of the visit,
the object of which he had surmised.
“You are disappointed,” ” said Sinbad.
“T do not unders ms
“The explanation | is "simple, Every man
has his price.”
That same night with loaded bunkers
the Avenger was once more on its way.
. CHAPTER XVIII.
THE SEARCH FOR THE MANDARIN, HUNG
—A REMARKABLE DISCOVERY,
& Avenger sailed on its long voyage,
rounding Cape Horn, and then on through
the Pacific in a northwesterly direction
without any incident of an exciting nature
to. disturb the monoton of the journey.
t's Eldorado be seeing soon,
masther,” sai
“ We shall stop, etore we Bet there.”
“Shure, an’ ye" re ot goin’ Aarti for
any more spalpee'
“No, but I’m ping into the fate of our
Chinese friend, Hung Lu. You recollect
we lett him on an island inhabited by sav-
me ‘Parblew! it we find his bones it’s all
we can expect.’
“IT don’t agree with you, Jacques."
“You think we may find his ‘lothes,
too, because they're not eatable
“More than his bones and his clothes,
Itung Lu himself is there alive and well
in my opinion, probably king of the island
Why should they
Spare him .
“Because he escaped from us. They
saw that. We are their enemies in their
opinion, therefore Ilung Lu their
riend
“e Masther, it’s a great brain ye have,
anyway.’
“Oh, i don't maintain Em right, but my
views are probable gh. ‘to make it
worth our while to search | the island, This
mandarin is Saul Dexter beyond a doubt.
What! you think I’m going to allow the
captain of the Swiftsare to escape me nr
W's a dangerous job ye're settin’ us,”
idee you're afraid, say so and stay be-
‘That. sgannot be.
hin
“Is it Con Cregan’s afraid? Shur
there's only one thing in the world makes
me shake.”
“* What's that, Con
“It'sa glass of ona wather, masther,
I'm like a horse, ye can take me to the
wather, but ye can’t make me drink.”
Sinbad and Jaeques laughed loudly at
Con, and the latter hurried away to at-
tend to his duties o ck,
“We shall be Of the island to-morrow,
Jacques,”
**So soon?”
We'll land at once.”
““And may we have good luck.”
“Let's hope so. Till to-morrow, Jacques,
good-night,
“*Good- -night, masther,”
Sinbad slept very little. His sleep was
disturbed by dreanis in which Dick Quince,
Saul Dexter and Claire figured. He never
ceased to wonder what nea become of the
girl, and he was very anxious as to her
Assoonas day broke the appearance of
the island two miles away contirmed Sin-
bad’s assertion,
inbad was. on deck giving his orders
and getting everything ready for the land-
in,
B you must run the Avenger as close in
as you can go, Con,” he s:
“Faith, it's mighty deep’ wather here-
abouts,”
“So ‘much the better, - All the men who
stay on the yacht must keep a close watch
on the island, so as to be ready to fire and
drive, the natives back, if they come too
nea Who's to see to the ship.
Con Cre; egan’s V ot going to stay be-
hind an’ lose all the illigant fun,
“That's all fixed. Jacques will remain
in command, and keep his eye on the pris-
oner as well. Lower the boats, We will
start at once.”
In less than ten minutes two boats, con-
taining eight men in one and ten in the
other, were on their way to the island.
They ran on to the sand, and instantly
their occupants sprang out and pulled
them up high and dr.
Then the search parties proceeded on
heir way, one under Con, the other com-
manded by Sinbad himself,. Each part:
sent forward a couple of scouts as a pre-
cautionary measu re.
For hours they plodded on, and noo:
came and not a living soul had been seen.
inbad was uneasy,
«Ib means an ambush,” he muttered,
Me recalled the scouts, and cautioned
them afresh to move forward warily.
*We have traversed two-thirds of the
islands said Sinbad, ‘and have seen none
of the’ savages. “My Jads, they are in hid-
ing. Be careful.”
Soon after a halt was made, Here were
traces of the savages, Large black patches
on the ground marked the spots where
reat fires had been lighted, and many
ones were fou:
“* Worrible !” gasped Sinbad, as a sicken-
ing feeling came over him,
ilis knowledge of anatomy was sufficient
to tell him that the bones were those of
human beings, and it was evident that the
cannibals had held a feast recently,
e shore, near where the feast had
taken places were several old canoes ina
dilapidated state, and close at hand wasa
quantity of wreckage which had the ap-
pearance of not having lain there long,
Vhilst Sinbad and his party were pursu-
ing their Investigations they were startled
to -hear'a wi ¥, proceeding from the
wooded portion of tnd islar
* The cannibals |’ s! houted one man, turn-
ing pale at the thought.
“Get behind these canoes, men,” shout-
ed Sinbad. ‘“Ilere we can make a stand
for our lives, Besides, we can be seen from
the, yacht, which is a very good thing for
‘Nore shouting reached their ears, and at
length the cries were quite sustained, and
even seemed to constitute a tu
Then a few minutes Jater a . number of
men euenged fro from the wood,
> it's
gia.”
*Ha—hal What's the meaning of it.
Hello! they're bringing something along
with them. Wh ny, it’s a man 1”
“Faith, an’ it's Santa Claus I'm jist
afther finding. Ah! it's the beautiful
whiskers he’s wearing.”
Sinbad and his men refrained from
laughing at the poor creature who was
with Con Cregan’s party, though. he
presented a strange and even ludicrous
sight,
Tlis beard was down to his waist, and
his hair hung down his back,
and hair were quite white, and in contrast
the swarthy face seemed even darker than
it actually was. He was clothed
waist in garments made of skins, and wore
a hat made of Jeaves with a very wide
brim,
“But he’s not a savage!” cried Sinbad
in amazement, after:a close scrutiny.
“ Tlow came you on this island, my friena?
Speak! you have nothing to fear from
“SAN gone—all gone |” muttered the old
nan.
“Gone! Who?’
* All gone !”
“Shure, it’s the only words he knows,
masther, It’s himself’s been telling me
that all the time.”
“‘Tlis brain's weak, poor creature,” said
Sinbad, sympathetically, ‘I daresay he’s
gone through terrible hardships. Still,
here's sense in what he says, ‘ Alf gone,’
are his words, he means that the
savages have, deserted the island,’
“Troth, an’ it’s likely !”
“Tt’s sure. Carr ry him along. Vell get
on board and make for Eldorado,
acques was greatly interested in the
old man, and devoted much attention to
him, trying his best tomake him talk. His
efforts were all failures, though under
treatment the poor creature's bodily health
improved, and each day he grew stronger,
“Willis miemory ever return, Jacques?”
“Shure, it’s .
alone,
“ He's Singing, "? Marching through Geor- | - This
go
Both beard
to the|I
o! Lf)
d Wet dig till Wednesday night,
“ Mon ami, it is hard tosay. If I knew
what had caused him to lose it, Sinbad, y
might be able to restore it.”
Well, take good care of him. At least
he shall have every com
Already Eldorado was te sight. The
Av venge r was steaming along under the
high cliffs towards the landing place, th
men seeping the! their eyes on the shore, watch-
ing for the peop]
Suddenly, turning the point, the harbor
came into view. Everyone on the Avenger
gave acry of surprise, for there, at anchor,
jay a large ship.
{r0 BE CONTINUED]
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ALL COUPONS OF THE PRESENT BICY-
CLE CONTEST” MUST REACH US NOT
LATER THAN NOON OF AUGUST 13th.
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[This story commenced in No, 191.)
TALKING TOM;)
*|THE,LUCK OF A POOR BOY.
By R. Te EMMET,
Author of *** Remember the Maine,” “Hal
Howe, the Boy Reporter," “ The Se:
at Burr Knob, "« The Klondike
Boys,” ete., elc., ele
CHAPTER IX,
DIGGING FOR BURIED TREASURE,
TALKING Tom was nobody ; fool—that is
something we want definitely under-
ood,
othe boy had started in to work out a
definite problem, and being a Western
boy, anda smart boy, and a level-headed
boy, with nothing of the crazy enthusiasm
of a treasure hunter about him, his chances
of success were good,
His idea of building the shed was, of
course, to keep curiosity seekers away .
Teaaig he hope to do it
ard
around the shed the first day, poking and
prying and trying to peer between the
cracks, for there were no windows in the
he a, but just a skylight in the sloping
=o
Bk
the ey “vould, He kept out of the way, and
waited until dark, when the last curiosity
seeker had taken his departur
It was lonely down on the fats at night,
and certainly not a pleasant spot,
Besides, there were the ruins of Jericho
left behind by the cyclone on everybody’s
mind, which gave all a lot to talk about,
and after dark the boys forgot i
‘Tom’s new shed, and left the half-acre lot
8 mas Tom’s time, and he made the
mos}
Ite met Billy Bunce at the crossroad just
after dark, and they went down to the
shed togethe Te
It was the first time Billy had been there,
although he had seen it from a distance as
he drove bis butcher cart aroun
Tom opened the door with his key and
fastened it again on the inside, lighting a
lantern before he did so.
“Ti’sa great start this,” said Billy. “I
don’t know, I'm sure, whether, “anything is
ving to come out of it
“What about the slags "replied pom
“Did we find r didn’t we? DidI
illy, your name
ought to have been Thomas instead of
mine—doubting ‘Thomas! We have proved
that there's gold down here. I ain’t work-
ing on any wild gouse business, you bet,
The Sultan went down here. We know
that, for Ihave seen her. Well, we know
there’s gold on her, too; now, ‘then, ain’t
it just as plain as the nose, on your face
that all we've got to do to get the whole
business, is to pitch right in and work like
blazes? The only trouble I see about it is
that we may not be able to reach the
gold before Thursday, in which case old
arinder may bid in_the property and
hunt me off the land, an i
I know what we shall’do then,
that? Go to Colonel Crockett and tell
him all about it? No, V'll be hanged if I
lL work it out myself on not atall,
and then
there’s no success, I’! fill up the hole and
burn the shed. Grinder suspects what I'm
at, of course, but he'll think I didn’t find
anything and go to work somewhere else,
and then you'll see
**Oh, come, come Yr brokein Billy. “Get
a piece of string and tie up one side of
your mouth, Tom, We'll never find the
gold unless you stop your everlasting
at—”
talk.”
-|red clay was banke
Ilalf Yt, boys in Jericho were down | coi
Tom laughed, and said they had better
get at work at once, which they
‘The shed was built right over oi6 gul-
ley, and Tom's first move was to dig out
the earth which had caved in over the
smoke stacks, something was soon accom-
plished, the earth being banked up along
the yall of the shed.
ore commencing, Tom rigged up a
block and fall. He did the digging, load- _
ing the dirt into a bucket, which Billy
hoisted up and dumped, Billy was all en-
thusiasm after he saw the smoke pipes.
Then it became slow work, for the tough”
in about the pipes,
and, did not come out easy, you may be
athe boys worked until about two in the
morning, and the next night it was the :
same, and thenext Sunday they laid off, ~
and Monday they began again and worked
that night and tuesday night, but without
reaching the
Nobo dy knew that Billy was in the deal,
and ‘Tom took good care to keep out of the
Ww
Mo re than once they thought they heard
prowlers abou shed while they work-
, but they hear saw an
On Wednesday night it rained, and Tom
was feeling nervous and blue, for the auc
tion sale was down for the next gay, and
there was still no sign of the
“By gracious, Billy, if we eee t come to
the end of these infernal smoke stacks to- .
night I don’t know what I shall do,”“lom
remarked, as they started in to work,
“It can’t be far,” replied Billy. “I ‘Wish
we'd ‘gone down between the pipes instead
of on the side of one of them the wa;
did, then we'd have struck the io king
beam and know where we were
“That’s so. Well, here goes tor “another
Tom, and seizing the rope he
n into the hole without
waiting for Billy to catch hold of the other
rope, and the result was he went flying
down faster than he intended and struck
the bottom with a t
Then Tom was treated to a surprise, for | .
the bottom suddenly caved in and down »
he went some five Toot further, striking
something decidedly
“The deck at last ! Y he shouted, 8 ring:
ing to his feet, “Show a light, ily f
Show a light ad
Lilly seized -the lantern, and bending
over the hole, lowered it as far as he
uld,
“Ts it really the deck, Tom ?” he shouted.
But Tom did not answer.
~ His attention was riveted to a gruesome
sigh
There at his feet lay a human skele-
m Jet them peer and pry as*much as| ton,
It made the boy’s blood run cold, and
then, all in an instant, he saw something
else which thrilled his heart with jo)
e to the bony hand of the skeleton
was othe remains of an old bag. It had
burst open, and mixed in with the rags
was a pile of yello st.
“Gold! Gola!” shouted Tom. “ By gra.
cious, we've got it Billy! I've struck it
at las stl”
CHAPTER X,
IN THE SULTAN’S TREASURE ROOM, -
“ Binzy, Billy ! -We've struck it at last!
There's gold here! Lots of it ! Come right
down! Don't wait a moment ! Jlooray !
We're rich 1 We are ric:
p the top of the hole around the
smoke Stacks, Billy Bunce could hear Tom ’
dancing a jig o:
and we are bound to admit that bis
thoughts did not deceive him, or that is
exactly what the boy was doin
For the yellow stuff which balged out of
the broken bag clutched by the bony hand
of the skeleton was gold, the real Cali-
fornia article brand o!
The tradition of the Terr v family seemed
likely to be fulfilled to the letter, and Talk-
ing Tom was away up in the seventh
Heaven of excitement,
Talk was not sufficient to sftord a full
outlet to the boy’s feelings, The only way
he could get relief was by dancing tae jig
upon the deck,
“Hey, Tom, Tom! What in thunder!
Have you really found the gold?” bawled
Lilly from above,
“ You bet your sweet life I have,” laugh-
ed Tom. “Whoop! Lethergo! Weare
as rich as Jews, and old_Grin der sn’t in
it. Come down, Billy. Come down
“Quit your fooling and wake np! yelled
Billy, .* How am I to get down without
our help ?”
y This very sensible question recalled Tom
to himself, an egan to wonder how
he was to get up to where the fall ended,
but this was soon arranged, for Billy pull:
ed up the fall and lengthened it out, act-
ing under Tom's directions, and came down
in the bucket. | He almost went wild at
the sight of the gold,
“ of course this ain’t all, Billy,” Tom
began, after the first excitement had
pas: “This poor wretch got on dec
vith, his little pile in the oi of escaping.
Where’ '3 the rest ot the gold? That's what
we wantto know, .
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