The Go Ahead Boys and the Treasure Cave

THE GO AHEAD BOYS
AND
THE TREASURE CAVE
ROSS KAY
Author of “Dodging the North Sea Mines,” “With Joffre on the Battle Line,” “The Air Scout,” “The Go Ahead Boys on Smugglers’ Island,” etc., etc.
Copyright, 1916 by BARSE & HOPKINS
PREFACE
The love of adventure is inborn in all normal boys. Action is almost a supreme demand in the stories they read with most pleasure. Recognizing this primary demand, in this tale I have endeavored to keep in mind this requisite and at the same time to avoid sensational appeals. The unusual is not always the improbable. The Go Ahead Boys are striving to be active without being unduly precocious or preternaturally endowed.
ROSS KAY.
“A-a-ll ha-a-ands! Up anchor! A-ho-oy!”
Instantly all was bustle and action on board the brig Josephine . The sailors ran hither and thither, the sails were loosed and the yards braced. The clanking of the windlass soon told that the anchor was being raised.
“Whew! I never saw so much excitement and hurry in all my life,” exclaimed a boy, who with three companions stood on the deck of the brig and looked on at these activities without actually taking part in them themselves. The speaker was Fred Button. He was a tiny little fellow, known affectionately among his friends as Stub, or Peewee or Pygmy. This last name was frequently shortened into Pyg, much to Fred’s disgust, though he had learned better than to lose his temper because of teasing or little things that did not just suit him. He had given up such foolishness long ago.