BILLY TOPSAIL & COMPANY
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THE "BILLY TOPSAIL" BOOKS
By NORMAN DUNCAN
THE ADVENTURES OF BILLY TOPSAIL
Illustrated, cloth, $1.50
"There was no need to invent conditions or imagine situations. Thelife of _any_ lad of Billy Topsail's years up there is sufficientlyromantic. It is this skill in the portrayal of actual conditions thatlie ready to the hand of the intelligent observer that makes Mr.Duncan's Newfoundland stories so noteworthy. 'The Adventures of BillyTopsail' is a wonderful book."--_Brooklyn Eagle._
BILLY TOPSAIL AND COMPANY
Illustrated, cloth, $1.50
Every boy who knows Billy Topsail will welcome this continuation ofhis adventuresome life in the North. Like its predecessor, the newvolume is a stirring story for boys, true to life, among the hardysons of the sea, clean, pure and stimulating.
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BILL O' BURNT BAY AND THE BOYS OF THE _SPOT CASH_ COULDNOT FATHOM THE MYSTERY OF THE _BLACK EAGLE_.]
BILLY TOPSAIL & COMPANY
A Story for Boys
by
NORMAN DUNCAN
Author of "The Adventures of Billy Topsail,""Doctor Luke of The Labrador," "The Mother,""Dr. Grenfell's Parish"
Illustrated
New York--Chicago--TorontoFleming H. Revell CompanyLondon and Edinburgh
Copyright, 1910, byFleming H. Revell CompanyNew York: 158 Fifth AvenueChicago: 80 Wabash AvenueToronto: 25 Richmond Street, W.London: 21 Paternoster SquareEdinburgh: 100 Princes Street
To Chauncey Lewis and to "Buster," good friends both, sometimes torecall to them places and occasions at Mike Marr's: Dead Man's Point,Rolling Ledge, the Canoe Landing, the swift and wilful waters of theWest Branch, Squaw Mountain, the trail to Dead Stream, the raft onHorseshoe, the Big Fish, the gracious kindness of the L. L. of E. O.,(as well as her sandwiches), and the never-to-be-forgotten flapjacksthat "didn't look it" but were indeed "all there."
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. _In Which Jimmie Grimm, Not Being Able to Help It, Is Born At Buccaneer Cove, Much to His Surprise, and Tog, the Wolf-Dog, Feels the Lash of a Seal-hide Whip and Conceives an Enmity_ 15
II. _In Which Jimmie Grimm is Warned Not to Fall Down, and Tog, Confirmed in Bad Ways, Raids Ghost Tickle, Commits Murder, Runs With the Wolves, Plots the Death of Jimmie Grimm and Reaches the End of His Rope_ 24
III. _In Which Little Jimmie Grimm Goes Lame and His Mother Discovers the Whereabouts of a Cure_ 33
IV. _In Which Jimmie Grimm Surprises a Secret, Jim Grimm makes a Rash Promise, and a Tourist From the States Discovers the Marks of Tog's Teeth_ 41
V. _In Which Jimmie Grimm Moves to Ruddy Cove and Settles on the Slope of the Broken Nose, Where, Falling in With Billy Topsail and Donald North, He Finds the Latter a Coward, But Learns the Reason, and Scoffs no Longer. In Which, Also, Donald North Leaps a Breaker to Save a Salmon Net, and Acquires a Strut_ 49
VI. _In Which, Much to the Delight of Jimmie Grimm and Billy Topsail, Donald North, Having Perilous Business On a Pan of Ice After Night, is Cured of Fear, and Once More Puffs Out His Chest and Struts Like a Rooster_ 61
VII. _In Which Bagg, Imported From the Gutters of London, Lands At Ruddy Cove From the Mail-Boat, Makes the Acquaintance of Jimmie Grimm and Billy Topsail, and Tells Them 'E Wants to Go 'Ome. In Which, Also, the Way to Catastrophe Is Pointed_ 69
VIII. _In Which Bagg, Unknown to Ruddy Cove, Starts for Home, and, After Some Difficulty, Safely Gets There_ 76
IX. _In Which Jimmie Grimm and Billy Topsail, Being Added Up and Called a Man, Are Shipped For St. John's, With Bill o' Burnt Bay, Where They Fall In With Archie Armstrong, Sir Archibald's Son, and Bill o' Burnt Bay Declines to Insure the "First Venture"_ 88
X. _In Which the Cook Smells Smoke, and the "First Venture" In a Gale of Wind Off the Chunks, Comes Into Still Graver Peril, Which Billy Topsail Discovers_ 97
XI. _In Which the "First Venture" All Ablaze Forward, Is Headed For the Rocks and Breakers of the Chunks, While Bill o' Burnt Bay and His Crew Wait for the Explosion of the Powder in Her Hold. In Which, Also, a Rope Is Put to Good Use_ 102
XII. _In Which Old David Grey, Once of the Hudson Bay Company, Begins the Tale of How Donald McLeod, the Factor at Fort Refuge, Scorned a Compromise With His Honour, Though His Arms Were Pinioned Behind Him and a Dozen Tomahawks Were Flourished About His Head._ 112
XIII. _In Which There Are Too Many Knocks At the Gate, a Stratagem Is Successful, Red Feather Draws a Tomahawk, and an Indian Girl Appears On the Scene_ 119
XIV. _In Which Jimmie Grimm and Master Bagg Are Overtaken by the Black Fog in the Open Sea and Lose the Way Home While a Gale is Brewing_ 130
XV. _In Which it Appears to Jimmie Grimm and Master Bagg That Sixty Seconds Sometimes Make More Than a Minute_ 136
XVI. _In Which Archie Armstrong Joins a Piratical Expedition and Sails Crested Seas to Cut Out the Schooner "Heavenly Home"_ 143
XVII. _In Which Bill o' Burnt Bay Finds Himself in Jail and Archie Armstrong Discovers That Reality is Not as Diverting as Romance_ 151
XVIII. _In Which Archie Inspects an Opera Bouffe Dungeon Jail, Where He Makes the Acquaintance of Dust, Dry Rot and Deschamps. In Which, Also, Skipper Bill o' Burnt Bay Is Advised to Howl Until His Throat Cracks_ 159
XIX. _In Which Archie Armstrong Goes Deeper In and Thinks He Has Got Beyond His Depth. Bill o' Burnt Bay Takes Deschamps By the Throat and the Issue Is Doubtful For a Time_ 165
XX. _In Which David Grey's Friend, the Son of the Factor at Fort Red Wing, Yarns of the Professor With the Broken Leg, a Stretch of Rotten River Ice and the Tug of a White Rushing Current_ 172
XXI. _In Which a Bearer of Tidings Finds Himself In Peril of His Life On a Ledge of Ice Above a Roaring Rapid_ 179
XXII. _In Which Billy Topsail Gets an Idea and, to the Amazement of Jimmie Grimm, Archie Armstrong Promptly Goes Him One Better_ 189
XXIII. _In Which Sir Archibald Armstrong Is Almost Floored By a Business Proposition, But Presently Revives, and Seems to be About to Rise to the Occasion_ 194
XXIV. _In Which the Honour of Archie Armstrong Becomes Involved, the First of September Becomes a Date of Utmost Importance, He Collides With Tom Tulk, and a Note is Made in the Book of the Future_ 203
XXV. _In Which Notorious Tom Tulk o' Twillingate and the Skipper of the "Black Eagle" Put Their Heads Together Over a Glass of Rum in the Cabin of a French Shore Trader_
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XXVI. _In Which the Enterprise of Archie Armstrong Evolves Senor Fakerino, the Greatest Magician In Captivity. In Which, also, the Foolish are Importuned Not to be Fooled, Candy is Promised to Kids, Bill o' Burnt Bay is Persuaded to Tussle With "The Lost Pirate," and the "Spot Cash" Sets Sail_ 220
XXVII. _In Which the Amazing Operations of the "Black Eagle" Promise to Ruin the Firm of Topsail, Armstrong, Grimm & Company, and Archie Armstrong Loses His Temper and Makes a Fool of Himself_ 229
XXVIII. _In Which the "Spot Cash" is Caught By a Gale In the Night and Skipper Bill Gives Her Up For Lost_ 239
XXVIX. _In Which Opportunity is Afforded the Skipper of the "Black Eagle" to Practice Villainy in the Fog and He Quiets His Scruples. In Which, also, the Pony Islands and the Tenth of the Month Come Into Significant Conjunction_ 247
XXX. _In Which the Fog Thins and the Crew of the "Spot Cash" Fall Foul of a Dark Plot_ 256
XXXI. _In Which the "Spot Cash" is Picked up by Blow-Me-Down Rock In Jolly Harbour, Wreckers Threaten Extinction and the Honour of the Firm Passes into the Keeping of Billy Topsail_ 266
XXXII. _In Which the "Grand Lake" Conducts Herself In a Most Peculiar Fashion to the Chagrin of the Crew of the "Spot Cash"_ 275
XXXIII. _In Which Billy Topsail, Besieged by Wreckers, Sleeps on Duty and Thereafter Finds Exercise For His Wits. In Which, also, a Lighted Candle is Suspended Over a Keg of Powder and Precipitates a Critical Moment While Billy Topsail Turns Pale With Anxiety_ 281
XXXIV. _In Which Skipper Bill, as a Desperate Expedient, Contemplates the Use of His Teeth, and Archie Armstrong, to Save His Honour, Sets Sail in a Basket, But Seems to Have Come a Cropper_ 291
XXXV. _In Which Many Things Happen: Old Tom Topsail Declares Himself the Bully to Do It, Mrs. Skipper William Bounds Down the Path With a Boiled Lobster, the Mixed Accommodation Sways, Rattles, Roars, Puffs and Quits on a Grade in the Wilderness, Tom Topsail Loses His Way in the Fog and Archie Armstrong Gets Despairing Ear of a Whistle_ 301
XXXVI. _And Last: In Which Archie Armstrong Hangs His Head in His Father's Office, the Pale Little Clerk Takes a Desperate Chance, Bill o' Burnt Bay Loses His Breath, and there is a Grand Dinner in Celebration of the Final Issue, at Which the Amazement of the Crew of the "Spot Cash" is Equalled by Nothing in the World Except Their Delight_ 311