I.[Rule or Ruin]
II.[The Clifford Seven Get a Challenge]
III.[Bill]
IV.[When the Athletic Committee Met]
V.[Lanky's Hard Luck]
VI.[When Brutus Changed His Mind]
VII.[Forced to Play]
VIII.[Up Against the Outcast Seven]
IX.[The Three Chums]
X.[Lanky Brings News]
XI.[Still a Mystery]
XII.[The Headwaters of the Harrapin]
XIII.[What the Smoke Meant]
XIV.[The Volunteer Fire Laddies]
XV.[The Old Farmer's Secret]
XVI.[Down the River]
XVII.[Lanky's Lucky Day]
XVIII.[The Puzzle Solved]
XIX.[Found at Last]
XX.[Such a Glorious Day]
XXI.[The Campfire on Rattail Island]
XXII.[Surprising Clifford]
XXIII.[The Great Victory—Conclusion]

THE BOYS OF COLUMBIA HIGH ON THE ICE

CHAPTER I

RULE OR RUIN

"Hi! there, Frank! Don't you want to take a little spin with me aboard my new ice-boat?"

"Why, hello Lanky, is that the Humming Bird you've been building on the sly?" and Frank Allen as he spoke, looked up from his task of locking a glittering skate to his shoe.

"Ain't she a corker, though?" demanded the proud owner and builder, Lanky Wallace, as he sprawled upon the framework of his strange craft, with its sails flapping in the breeze.

"Well, honest Injun, Lanky," observed Frank, with a smile, "I can't say that she's a beauty so far as looks go; but I like her lines, and it strikes me that she ought to be a hustler to get along."