THE RED PIROGUE

A TALE OF ADVENTURE IN THE CANADIAN WILDS

STORIES BY

Captain Theodore Goodridge Roberts

Comrades of the Trails

The Red Feathers

Flying Plover

The Fighting Starkleys

Tom Akerley

The Red Pirogue

L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (Inc.)

53 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.

“UP CAME THE RAGING WATERS, UP AND PAST THE JUMPING, SQUIRMING CANOE.”

The RED PIROGUE

A Tale of Adventure in the Canadian Wilds

RELATED BY

Captain Theodore Goodridge Roberts

Author of “The Fighting Starkleys,” “Comrades of the Trails,”

“Red Feathers,” “Tom Akerley,” etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY

Frank T. Merrill

BOSTON

L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY

(INCORPORATED)

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Copyright, 1922,

By Street & Smith Corporation

Copyright, 1924,

By L. C. Page & Company

(INCORPORATED)

All rights reserved

Made in U.S.A.

First Impression, January, 1924

PRINTED BY C. H. SIMONDS COMPANY

BOSTON, MASS., U. S. A.

CONTENTS

I.A Queer Fish

II.The Drifting Fire

III.The Strange Behavior of Dogs and Men

IV.Obstructing the Law

V.Visitors to French River

VI.Hot Scent and Wet Trail

VII.A Trap for the Hungry

VIII.The Red Dogs at Work

IX.The Sick Man

X.In the Nick of Time

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

“Up came the raging waters, up and past the jumping, squirming canoe.”

“For a few seconds the two gazed in silence”

“The old man drew alongside and peered at Ben”

“Sat down on a convenient chopping block”

“'To shoot gentlemen with?’ asked the little girl in an awe-struck whisper”

“'Stand there and stand steady’”

THE RED PIROGUE