Two Sailor Lads.

A STORY OF

STIRRING ADVENTURES ON SEA AND LAND

BY

GORDON STABLES, M.D., C.M.

(Surgeon, Royal Navy),

AUTHOR OF "FOR ENGLAND, HOME, AND BEAUTY;" "IN THE DASHING DAYS OF OLD;" "ON TO THE RESCUE;" ETC. ETC.

"The story of my life, Even from my boyish days To the very moment that he bade me tell it."

NEW EDITION.

JOHN F. SHAW AND CO., LTD., Publishers, 3, PILGRIM STREET, LONDON, E.C.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.

I. "Hush! Do you Hear that Cry? What can it be?"

II. "But Looking Back, Boys, it is all Like a Dream"

III. An Aimless Life—Peace at Last

IV. Sitting up to Think—The Dignity of Labour

V. At the Fisherman's Cave—Fred's Aquarium

VI. Taking Tea inside a Whale—The strange Story of the Stranded Leviathan

VII. "Five Years Ago this very Night"

VIII. Pleasant Surprises—Frank's Yacht—The Launch of the "Water-Baby"

IX. Playing at Being Pirates—A Storm at Sea—The Wreck

X. On the Desert Island—Toddie's Adventure on the Cliff—the Bonfire

XI. "Friends for Life"—Round the Camp Fire

XII. That Awful Night at Sea—A Ride for Precious Life

XIII. "A Strange, Strange Story," said Frank. "I Wonder how it will all End"

XIV. "Duty, Lad, Duty. Stick to it through Thick and Thin"

XV. The Good Ship "San Salvador."—A Mystery of the Southern Seas

XVI. Deakin and Co. and the Lost Brig "Resolute"

XVII. Southward Ho! to the Sea of Ice

XVIII. Señor Sarpinto

XIX. A Fairy Isle—The Lost Boat

XX. "What their Fate was to be they could not even Guess"

XXI. "A Land flowing with Cocoanut-milk and Honey"

XXII. A Terrible Apparition

XXIII. A Swim for Dear Life—Pursued by Sharks

XXIV. Stingaree

XXV. "Row, Brothers, Row"—Quambo's Shark Story—Fast to a Sword-fish

XXVI. "What was the Mystery surrounding that Strange Vessel?"

XXVII. Frank gazed Aghast

XXVIII. Could he be——Dead?

XXIX. The Arrival of Savages

XXX. "There is no going Back now," Frank said

XXXI. In Cannibal Islands

XXXII. The whole Beach was lined with Yelling Savages

XXXIII. South and South sailed the good Barque

XXXIV. Fighting in Earnest

XXXV. "Would she see their Signals?"

TWO SAILOR LADS.