The Young Surveyor;
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Chapter 1 "NOTHING BUT A BOY."
Chapter 2 OLD WIGGETT'S SECTION CORNER.
Chapter 3 THE HOMEWARD TRACK.
Chapter 4 A DEER HUNT, AND HOW IT ENDED.
Chapter 5 THE BOY WITH ONE SUSPENDER.
Chapter 6 LORD BETTERSON'S.
Chapter 7 JACK AT THE CASTLE.
Chapter 8 HOW VINNIE MADE A JOURNEY.
Chapter 9 VINNIE'S ADVENTURE.
Chapter 10 JACK AND VINNIE IN CHICAGO.
Chapter 11 JACK'S NEW HOME.
Chapter 12 VINNIE'S FUTURE HOME.
Chapter 13 WHY JACK DID NOT FIRE AT THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN.
Chapter 14 SNOWFOOT'S NEW OWNER.
Chapter 15 GOING FOR A WITNESS.
Chapter 16 PEAKSLOW GETS A QUIRK IN HIS HEAD.
Chapter 17 VINNIE MAKES A BEGINNING.
Chapter 18 VINNIE'S NEW BROOM.
Chapter 19 LINK'S WOOD-PILE.
Chapter 20 MORE WATER THAN THEY WANTED.
Chapter 21 PEAKSLOW SHOWS HIS HAND.
Chapter 22 THE WOODLAND SPRING.
Chapter 23 JACK'S BIT OF ENGINEERING.
Chapter 24 PREPARING FOR THE ATTACK.
Chapter 25 THE BATTLE OF THE BOUNDARY FENCE.
Chapter 26 VICTORY.
Chapter 27 VINNIE IN THE LION'S DEN.
Chapter 28 AN EXTRAORDINARY GIRL.
Chapter 29 ANOTHER HUNT, AND HOW IT ENDED.
Chapter 30 JACK'S PRISONER.
Chapter 31 RADCLIFF.
Chapter 32 AN IMPORTANT EVENT.
Chapter 33 MRS. WIGGETT'S NOON-MARK.
Chapter 34 THE STRANGE CLOUD.
Chapter 35 PEAKSLOW IN A TIGHT PLACE.-CECIE.
Chapter 36 ON THE WAR TRAIL.
Chapter 37 THE MYSTERY OF A PAIR OF BREECHES.
Chapter 38 THE MORNING AFTER.
Chapter 39 FOLLOWING UP THE MYSTERY.
Chapter 40 PEAKSLOW'S HOUSE-RAISING.
Chapter 41 CONCLUSION.
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Chapter 37 THE MYSTERY OF A PAIR OF BREECHES.

Jack went out with the lantern upon the ruined abutment of the bridge, and showed a space beside the drift-wood, in the turbid and whirling current, where fording seemed practicable.

Then the boys got into the wagon again, and the mare was driven cautiously forward, by the glimmering light which the lantern shed faintly before and around them. L

             
            

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