Read Motor Matt's Red Flyer; or, On the High Gear Page 24


  WILD HORSES OF NEVADA.

  Horses are cheap in Nevada. On the government ranges, where they areprotected by game-laws, droves of wild horses exist which in theaggregate are said to amount to fifteen thousand. Formerly there was alaw in Nevada permitting the shooting of these wild horses for theirhides, but there were hunters who were not particular, and the ranchersfound their domestic horses disappearing if they let them out on therange. So their shooting was prohibited, and since that time the droveshave grown to be exceedingly troublesome. They can be domesticated, butthey are not needed there, and it costs too much to ship them East. Itseems a pity that, while so many sections could use them to advantage,the transportation problem makes it impossible to get them at a pricewhich they are worth.

  _ESPECIALLY IMPORTANT!!_

  MOTOR STORIES

  _A New Idea in the Way of Five-Cent Weeklies._

  Boys everywhere will be delighted to hear that Street & Smith are nowissuing this new five-cent weekly which will be known by the name ofMOTOR STORIES.

  This weekly is entirely different from anything now being published.It details the astonishing adventures of a young mechanic who owned amotor cycle. Is there a boy who has not longed to possess one of theseswift little machines that scud about the roads everywhere throughoutthe United States? Is there a boy, therefore, who will not be intenselyinterested in the adventures of "Motor Matt," as he is familiarlycalled by his comrades?

  Boys, you have never read anything half so exciting, half so humorousand entertaining as the first story listed for publication in thisline, called "=Motor Matt; or, The King of the Wheel=." Its fame isbound to spread like wildfire, causing the biggest demand for the othernumbers in this line, that was ever heard of in the history of thisclass of literature.

  Here are the titles to be issued during the next few weeks. Do not failto place an order for them with your newsdealer.

  No. 1. Motor Matt; or, The King of the Wheel. No. 2. Motor Matt's Daring; or, True to His Friends. No. 3. Motor Matt's "Century" Run; or, The Governor's Courier. No. 4. Motor Matt's Race; or, The Last Flight of the _Comet_.

  32 LARGE SIZE PAGES SPLENDID COLORED COVERS

  PRICE, FIVE CENTS PER COPY

  AT ALL NEWSDEALERS, OR SENT POSTPAID BY THE PUBLISHERS UPON RECEIPT OFTHE PRICE.

  _STREET & SMITH, Publishers, NEW YORK_

  _THE BEST OF THEM ALL!!_

  MOTOR STORIES

  IT IS NEW AND INTENSELY INTERESTING

  We knew before we published this line that it would have a tremendoussale and our expectations were more than realized. It is going with arush, and the boys who want to read these, the most interesting andfascinating tales ever written, must speak to their newsdealers aboutreserving copies for them.

  =MOTOR MATT= sprang into instant favor with American boy readers and isbound to occupy a place in their hearts second only to that now held byFrank Merriwell.

  The reason for this popularity is apparent in every line of thesestories. They are written by an author who has made a life study ofthe requirements of the up-to-date American boy as far as literatureis concerned, so it is not surprising that this line has proven a hugesuccess from the very start.

  Here are the titles now ready and also those to be published. You willnever have a better opportunity to get a generous quantity of readingof the highest quality, so place your orders now.

  =No. 1.--Motor Matt; or, The King of the Wheel.= =No. 2.--Motor Matt's Daring; or, True to His Friends.= =No. 3.--Motor Matt's Century Run; or, The Governor's Courier.= =No. 4.--Motor Matt's Race; or, The Last Flight of the "Comet."=

  TO BE PUBLISHED ON MARCH 22nd

  =No. 5.--Motor Matt's Mystery; or, Foiling a Secret Plot.=

  TO BE PUBLISHED ON MARCH 29th

  =No. 6.--Motor Matt's Red Flier; or, On the High Gear.=

  TO BE PUBLISHED ON APRIL 5th

  =No. 7.--Motor Matt's Clue; or, The Phantom Auto.=

  TO BE PUBLISHED ON APRIL 12th

  =No. 8.--Motor Matt's Triumph; or, Three Speeds Forward.=

  =Price, Five Cents=

  To be had from newsdealers everywhere, or sent, postpaid, upon receiptof the price by the publishers

  _STREET & SMITH, Publishers, NEW YORK_

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  Transcriber's note:

  Added table of contents.

  Retained some inconsistent hyphenation (e.g. "motorcycle" vs."motor-cycle").

  Retained some inconsistent spellings in dialect (e.g. "becase" vs."bekase").

  Page 3, added missing comma after ""Vell, py shinks." Added missingapostrophe after "doan" in "Why doan' yo'-all git." Removed unnecessaryquote after "Matt stopped the Red Flier."

  Page 4, removed unnecessary quote after "Legree was about to secure it?"

  Page 5, changed "as she pointed" to "as he pointed."

  Page 10, "would came after it" looks like a typo but has been retainedin case it is intentional dialect.

  Page 12, replaced ligature in "Phoenix" with "oe." Ligature is retainedin HTML edition.

  Page 14, removed unnecessary quote before "Matt's pulses quickened."

  Page 18, added missing period after "Josh turned to stare along theroad."

  Page 19, changed "Mat" to "Matt" in "Matt was intending to push thestone."

  Page 20, the sentence "As he yanked the lever savagely, the poppingfrom up the road sounding like the rapid discharge of a Gatling gun."seems incorrect, but it is reproduced as originally printed.

 
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