The boy had learned much of odd-sounding names and strange sea terms
THE ISLAND OF
APPLEDORE
BY
Adair Aldon
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
By W. B. KING
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1917
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1917
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published, September, 1917.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter page I Peering Eyes 1 II The Mill-Creek Road 20 III The Cruise of the Josephine 39 IV Captain Saulsby’s Watch 62 V The War Game 75 VI The Ebbing of the Tide 90 VII Mist and Moonlight 105 VIII The Stranger at the Mill 122 IX The Calling of the Island 136 X Three Quarters of a Year 154 XI The Watchfires of Appledore 170 XII The Last Voyage of Johann Happs 191
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
The boy had learned much of odd-sounding names and strange sea terms Frontispiece page “Why,” gasped Billy, “it must have been the Flying Dutchman 68 Johann shook his head in mute anguish 132 “Would you believe it, there were two boys that put to sea right in the face of it?” 202
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