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Title: Joe Strong on the high wire
or, Motor-cycle perils of the air
Author: Vance Barnum
Release date: May 6, 2025 [eBook #76025]
Language: English
Original publication: New York: Hearst's International Library Co, 1916
Credits: Aaron Adrignola, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.)
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JOE STRONG ON THE HIGH WIRE ***
JOE STRONG ON THE HIGH WIRE
OR
MOTOR-CYCLE PERILS OF THE AIR
By VANCE BARNUM
Author of "Joe Strong, the Boy Wizard,"
"Joe Strong
on the Trapeze," etc.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
HEARST'S INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY CO.
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1916, by
Hearst's International Library Company
CONTENTS
| I. | "Good-bye!" |
| II. | The Shaky Bridge |
| III. | Turned Turtle |
| IV. | A Strange Interest |
| V. | Rather Dubious |
| VI. | Making the Apparatus |
| VII. | Failure |
| VIII. | A New Idea |
| IX. | The First Exhibition |
| X. | A Chance Remark |
| XI. | Joe Wonders |
| XII. | Days of Daring |
| XIII. | A Bad Fall |
| XIV. | The New Machine |
| XV. | A Big Climb |
| XVI. | Across a Chasm |
| XVII. | Back in the Circus |
| XVIII. | In Madison Square Garden |
| XIX. | Joe's Marksmanship |
| XX. | Out West |
| XXI. | Recognition |
| XXII. | Good News |
| XXIII. | A Wild Ride |
| XXIV. | The Cablegram |
| XXV. | Joe's Inheritance |