TOM AKERLEY

HIS ADVENTURES IN THE TALL TIMBER AND AT GASPARD’S CLEARINGS ON THE INDIAN RIVER

STORIES BY

Captain Theodore Goodridge Roberts

Comrades of the Trails

The Red Feathers

Flying Plover

The Fighting Starkleys

Tom Akerley

THE PAGE COMPANY

53 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass.

“THE BEAR’S GREASE PROVED TO BE AS POTENT AS IT SMELT.”

TOM AKERLEY

His Adventures in the Tall Timber and at

Gaspard’s Clearing on the Indian River

RELATED BY

Captain Theodore Goodridge Roberts

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

“Red Feathers,” etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY

Ernest Fuhr

BOSTON

L. C. PAGE AND COMPANY

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Copyright, 1922,

By Perry Mason Company

Copyright, 1923

By L. C. Page and Company

(INCORPORATED)

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Made in U. S. A.

First impression, April, 1923

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CONTENTS

IThe Flight

IIThe Girl and the Man

IIICatherine’s Plan

IVThe Heaviest Hitter

VThe Plan Succeeds

VIMick Otter, Injun

VIITaking to the Trail

VIIIBlack Forests and Gray Swamps

IXGaspard Understands

XMick Otter, Match-Maker

XIThe Military Cross

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

“The bear’s grease proved to be as potent as it smelt.”

“They sat side by side on a small heap of straw”

“‘He was figgerin’ to lose ye in the woods’”

“It was hard work and slow progress”

“He ... thrust his head and shoulders out of the window”

TOM AKERLEY