ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1902

Copyright, 1893, by HARPER & BROTHERS.
All rights reserved.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER
I. [THE RAFT]
II. [WINN ASSUMES A RESPONSIBILITY]
III. [A MUD-BESPATTERED ARRIVAL FROM CALIFORNIA]
IV. [BILLY BRACKETT STARTS DOWN THE RIVER]
V. [HOW THE VOYAGE WAS BEGUN]
VI. [MR. GILDER AND HIS RUDE RECEPTION]
VII. [A GANG OF "RIVER-TRADERS"]
VIII. [DISAPPEARANCE OF THE RAFT]
IX. [ALONE ON THE ISLAND]
X. [A NIGHT OF STRANGE HAPPENINGS]
XI. [BILLY BRACKETT'S SURPRISING SITUATION]
XII. [THE TRAPPERS TRAPPED]
XIII. [WINN'S LONELY CRUISE]
XIV. [A PEAL OF GIRLISH LAUGHTER]
XV. ["CAP'N COD," SABELLA, AND THE "WHATNOT"]
XVI. [BIM MAKES AN ENEMY]
XVII. [THE TRUTH, BUT NOT THE WHOLE TRUTH]
XVIII. [FOLLOWING THE TRAIL]
XIX. [A CURIOUS COMPLICATION]
XX. [BIM GROWLS]
XXI. [EVERY ONE EXPLAINS]
XXII. [A "MEWEL" NAMED "REWARD"]
XXIII. [REWARD RUNS AWAY WITH THE PANORAMA]
XXIV. [WINN DISCOVERS HIS LONG-LOST RAFT]
XXV. [THE RAFT AND SHOW-BOAT CHANGE CREWS]
XXVI. [A DISASTROUS COLLISION]
XXVII. [IS THIS OUR RAFT OR NOT?]
XXVIII. [THE RESCUE OF SABELLA]
XXIX. [BIM BRINGS ABOUT A JOYFUL MEETING]
XXX. [IN CLOD'S CABIN]
XXXI. [CAMPMATES TURN RAFTMATES]
XXXII. [THE "RIVER-TRADERS" ATTEMPT TO REGAIN POSSESSION]
XXXIII. [WHERE IS BIM?]
XXXIV. [A BLAZE ON THE RIVER]
XXXV. [BIM'S HEROISM]
XXXVI. [THE MASTER OF MOSS BANK]
XXXVII. [BIM'S COON]
XXXVIII. [THE GREAT RIVER AND ITS MISCHIEF]
XXXIX. [HURLED THROUGH THE CREVASSE AND WRECKED]
XL. [A MEETING OF MATES]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

[ "WINN DASHED AWAY WITH THE SPEED OF A DEER" . . . Frontispiece ]

[ "WINN SECURED ONE END OF THE CABLE TO THAT PART
OF THE BOOM RESTING AGAINST THE SNAG" ]

[ "'WHY, THE RAFT HAS GONE!' EXCLAIMED ELTA" ]

[ "'HOLD ON, YOUNG MAN! ONE AT A TIME IS ENOUGH'" ]