CHAPTER PAGE
[I.][ The Dune Country][15]
[II.][ The Gulls and Terns][39]
[III.][ The Turtles][47]
[IV.][ The Crows][55]
[V.][ “Old Sipes”][73]
[VI.][ “Happy Cal”][97]
[VII.][ “Catfish John”][115]
[VIII.][ “Doc Looney”][149]
[IX.][ The Mysterious Prowler][169]
[X.][ “J. Ledyard Symington”][179]
[XI.][ The Back Country][193]
[XII.][ Judge Cassius Blossom][229]
[XIII.][ The Winding River][255]
[XIV.][ The Red Arrow][279]

THE DUNE COUNTRY

CHAPTER I
THE DUNE COUNTRY

WHILE there are immense stretches of sand dunes in other parts of the world, it is of a particular dune country, to which many journeys have been made, and in which many days have been spent, that this story will be told.

The dunes sweep for many miles along the Lake Michigan coasts. They are post-glacial, and are undergoing slow continual changes, both in form and place,—the loose sand responding lightly to the action of varying winds.