CONTENTS

I.Big Reuben’s Raid[11]
II.Crawford’s Basin[27]
III.Yetmore’s Mistake[42]
IV.Lost in the Clouds[64]
V.What We Found in the Pool[82]
VI.Long John Butterfield[101]
VII.The Hermit’s Warning[119]
VIII.The Wild Cat’s Trail[134]
IX.The Underground Stream[150]
X.How Tom Connor Went Boring for Oil[169]
XI.Tom’s Second Window[190]
XII.Tom Connor’s Scare[210]
XIII.The Ore-Theft[229]
XIV.The Snow-slide[250]
XV.The Big Reuben Vein[271]
XVI.The Wolf With Wet Feet[289]
XVII.The Draining of the “Forty Rods”[313]

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
“There Was Big Reuben Looking Down At Us” [Frontispiece]
“‘Ah, Sox, Is That You?’” [78]
“We Saw Before Us a Very Curious Sight”[155]
“‘Can Folks See in From Outside?’”[213]
“He Shot Downward Like An Arrow”[281]

The Boys of Crawford’s Basin

CHAPTER I