Produced by W. R. Marvin
The Rover Boys on the River
The Search for the Missing Houseboat
By
Arthur Winfield
CONTENTS
I. Plans for an Outing
II. On the way to Putnam Hall
III. The Doings of a Night
IV. What the Morning Brought Forth
V. For and Against
VI. Link Smith's Confession
VII. Fun on the Campus
VIII. Good-bye to Putnam Hall
IX. The Rover Boys at Home
X. A Scene in a Cemetery
XI. Attacked from Behind
XII. Flapp and Baxter Plot Mischief
XIII. Chips and the Circus Bills
XIV. Fun at the Show
XV. Acts Not on the Bills
XVI. Aleck Brings News
XVII. A Queer Captain
XVIII. On Board the Houseboat
XIX. Words and Blows
XX. Days of Pleasure
XXI. The Disappearance of the Houseboat
XXII. Dan Baxter's Little Game
XXIII. A Run in the Dark
XXIV. The Horse Thieves
XXV. Plotting Against Dora and Nellie
XXVI. The Search on the River
XXVII. Caught Once More
XXVIII. A Message for the Rovers
XXIX. Jake Shaggam, of Shaggam Creek
XXX. The Rescue—Conclusion
INTRODUCTION
My dear boys: "The Rover Boys on the River" is a complete story in itself, but forms the ninth volume of "The Rover Boys Series for Young Americans."
Nine volumes! What a great number of tales to write about one set of characters! When I started the series I had in mind, as I have mentioned before, to write three, or possibly, four books. But the gratifying reception given to "The Rover Boys at School," soon made the publishers call for the second, third, and fourth volumes, and then came the others, and still the boys and girls do not seem to be satisfied. I am told there is a constant cry for "more! more!" and so I present this new Rover Boys story, which tells of the doings of Dick, Tom, and Sam and their friends during an outing on one of our great rivers,—an outing full of excitement and fun and with a touch of a rather unusual mystery. During the course of the tale some of the old enemies of the Rover Boys turn up, but our heroes know, as of old, how to take care of themselves; and all ends well.