Contents

CHAPTERPAGE
IBOUND FOR LAKE SURPRISE[11]
IILUB AND THE MOTHER BOBCAT[21]
IIIA MYSTERY, TO START WITH[33]
IVTHE FIGURE IN THE MOONLIGHT[46]
VTHE SUDDEN AWAKENING[59]
VIGETTING RID OF AN INTRUDER[72]
VIION THE BORDER OF THE LAKE[84]
VIIITHE MOUNTAIN BOYS IN CAMP[97]
IXTHE 'COON PHOTOGRAPHER[112]
XFINDING A SUNBEAM[121]
XIAN ENCOUNTER IN THE PINE WOODS[134]
XIIWHEN TWO PLAYED THE GAME[143]
XIIIHOW "DADDY" CAME BACK[156]
XIVTHE PUZZLE OF IT ALL[169]
XVAFTER THE STORM[181]
XVIPEACE AFTER STRIFE—CONCLUSION[194]

PHIL BRADLEY'S MOUNTAIN BOYS

CHAPTER I

BOUND FOR LAKE SURPRISE

"Phil, please tell me we're nearly there!"

"I'd like to, Lub, for your sake; but the fact of the matter is we've got about another hour of climbing before us, as near as I can reckon."

"Oh! dear, that means sixty long minutes of this everlasting scrambling over logs, and crashing through tangled underbrush. Why, I reckon I'll have the map of Ireland in red streaks on my face before I'm done with it."