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The Wonder Island boys

Chapter 24: Christy Mathewson’s Book
By Roger T. Finlay
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About This Book

Two boys and an elderly professor, stranded on an island, fortify a wagon and use ingenuity to defend themselves against successive raids by native tribes. They treat and question wounded captives to learn tribe names and headdress distinctions, mount reconnaissance, and employ ruses to repel assaults. Skirmishes, a tense night escape toward the river, and efforts to locate and rescue captured companions are described alongside practical improvisation and scientific reasoning applied to survival and makeshift engineering.

THE
Campfire and Trail Series

1. In Camp on the Big Sunflower.
2. The Rivals of the Trail.
3. The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island.
4. Lost in the Great Dismal Swamp.
5. With Trapper Jim in the North Woods.
6. Caught in a Forest Fire.

By LAWRENCE J. LESLIE

A series of wholesome stories for boys told in an interesting way and appealing to their love of the open.

Each, 12mo. Cloth. 40 cents per volume

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Christy Mathewson’s Book

A Ripping Good
Baseball Story
by One Who Knows the Game

This book has attained a larger sale than any baseball story ever published.

The narrative deals with the students of a large university and their baseball team, the members of which have names which enable the reader to recognize them as some of the foremost baseball stars of the day before their entrance into the major leagues.

One gains a very clear idea of “inside baseball” stripped of wearisome technicalities. The book is profusely illustrated throughout and contains also a number of plates showing the manner in which Mathewson throws his deceptive curves, together with brief description of each.

Cloth bound 5½ × 7⅝ Price 50c. per volume

THE NEW YORK BOOK COMPANY
147 FOURTH AVENUE NEW YORK