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JUNIOR CLASSICS
VOLUME NINE
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SPORT AND ADVENTURE
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JUNIOR CLASSICS The Edited
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MARCIA DALPHIN.
WILLIAM ALLAN NEILSON,
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CHARLES W. ELIOT,
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Play* Football," from "The Varmint," copyright, 1910, by Little, Brown & Company. "The Winning Bug," from "Split Seconds," copyright, 1926, by Jackson Scholz; copyright, 1927, by William Morrow & Company, Inc. "Billy Topsail and the Devilfish," from "The Adventures of Billy Topsail," copyright, 1906, by Fleming H. Revell Company. "The Two-Twenty Low Hurdle Race," from "The Human Comedy," copyright, 1943, by Harcourt, Brace and Company, Inc. "Head Over Heels," copyright, 1942, by B. J. Chute. "Knapsack of Salvation," from "I'll Take the High Road," copyright, 1939, by Wolfgang Langewiesche. "Chased by the Trail," copyright, 1907, by Perry Mason Company. "The Prospector," from 'They of the High Trails," copyright, 1902, by Hamlin Garland; copyright, "Tom Chist and the Treasure Chest," 191 6, by Harper & Brothers. from "Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates," copyright, 1921, by Harper & Brothers. "Dick Turpin," from "Highwaymen," copyright, 1923, by Robert M. McBride & Company. "New York to Paris," from "We," copyright, 1927, by Charles A. Lindbergh. "Flying over the North Pole," from "Skyward," copyright, 1928, by Richard E. Byrd. "Dawn Over Zero," from "Dawn Over Zero," copyright, 1946, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. "The Making of an Explorer," from "Ends of the Earth," copyright, 1929, by Roy Chapman Andrews. "With Helmet and Hose," from "Exploring with Beebe," copyright, 1932, by William Beebe. "Summit of the World: The Fight for Everest," from "High Conquest," copyright, 1941, by James Ramsey Ullman. "Adrift on an Ice Pan," copyright, 1909, by Wilfred Thomason Grenfcll. "The Race for the South Pole," from "The Last Continent of Adventure," copyright, 1930, by Walter B. Hay ward. "The Lone Voyagers," from "The Book of the
"Stover
Gloucester Fishermen," copyright, 1927, by James Brendan Connolly. "An Adventure with a Whale," from "The Cruise of the Cachalot," copyright, 1925, by D. Appleton & Company. "Rounding the Cape in a Windjammer," copyright, 1931, by National Geographic Society.
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