Driftwood (Spears)
"DRIFTWOOD"
RAYMOND S. SPEARS
A black-headed, spreading-pronged horror of a snag … lunging at them like a living thing
"DRIFTWOOD"
ILLUSTRATED BY
GEORGE AVISON
NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
Copyright, 1921, by
THE CENTURY CO.
PRINTED IN U. S. A.
"DRIFTWOOD"
Is dedicated to
Charles and John,
who camped from
the Atlantic to
the Pacific and
back by automobile
CONTENTS
chapter page I Carried Away in a River Flood 3 II When The River Separates its People 18 III Caught in the River Drift 32 IV A Baby Afloat 50 V The Crowded Hours of Flood Time 66 VI Rescue Work in the Overflow 77 VII News From the Flood Victims 100 VIII River Pirates 116 IX Sibley Takes Command 141 X Kalas Picks His Helpers 152 XI Jimmy Veraine on Secret Service 163 XII Jep Forestalls an Adoption 177 XIII An Enigma 194 XIV "One Hundred Dollars Reward" 203 XV Jep Loses His Shanty Boat 223 XVI Keeping Faith with River Folks 235 XVII "How’s the Kid, Jep?" 252 XVIII What the River Did for Boys 266
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE A black-headed, spreading-pronged horror of a snag … lunging at them like a living thing Frontispiece "I’m coming!" 37 "Will you go back on rescue work?" 59 "The levee … has broken!" 87 All night long, and all the following day … Sibley and Jimmy worked 97 "It may cut through there! Yes, sir! We’re lucky if it doesn’t go through" 23 Sibley … went up on the roof … to watch for the pirates 139 He looked in the night for a light or a sign of people 191 "I ’lowed you might catch sight of ’im," the sheriff said 205 "But you can’t stay here" 253 "I’ve come to give myself up," Jep answered 263 "The Government just has to take on those who make a speciality of any kind of work the way you’ve studied the Mississippi River" 273
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