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
Big Reuben’s Raid
“
Wake up, boys! Wake up! Tumble out, there! Quick! Big Reuben’s into the pig-pen again!”
Our bedroom door was banged wide open, and my father stood before us—a startling apparition—dressed only in his night-shirt and a pair of boots, carrying a stable-lantern in one hand and a rifle in the other.