Dave Porter in the Far North or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy
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This unknown individual was on an island in the South Seas. As already related in the second volume of this series, "Dave Porter in the South Seas," the voyage of the Stormy Petrel proved to be anything but an uneventful one. Fearful storms arose, and Dave and some others were cast away on an uninhabited island. But in the end all went well, and, much to the lad's joy, he found an uncle named Dunston Porter.
We must return to the United States at once and let them know of this.
Dave Porter in the Far North; Or, The Pluck of an American Schoolboy by Stratemeyer
They mourn you as dead. There was a good deal of money in the Porter family, a fair share of which would come to Dave when he became of age. The whole party returned to California and then to the East, and word was at once sent to Europe, to David Breslow Porter, as Dave's father was named. To the surprise of all, no answer came back, and then it was learned that Mr.
Porter and his daughter Laura had started on some trip, leaving no address behind them. Porter in the meantime remaining a guest of the Wadsworth family. There was likewise another pupil, Nick Jasniff, who also hated Dave, and one day this fellow, who was exceedingly hot-tempered, attempted to strike Dave down with a heavy Indian club. It was a most foul attack and justly condemned by nearly all who saw it, and thoroughly scared over what he had attempted to do, Nick Jasniff ran away from school and could not be found.
In a twinkling the turnout was upset. The two met on the car platform, and as the train moved off again, both came in to join Ben and Phil. The great cloud over Dave's life was the question of his parentage. English Choose a language for shopping. At the academy Dave Porter seemed to be a natural leader, although that place had been at times disputed by Nat Poole, Gus Plum, and others.
There had been a number of robberies around Oakdale, where the academy was located, and one day when Dave and his chums were out ice-boating they had come on the track of two of the robbers. Then to his surprise Dave learned that Nick Jasniff was also implicated in the thefts.
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He knew that Jasniff and Gus Plum were very intimate, and wondered if the bully of the school could be one of the criminals also. At length, one snowy day, he saw Plum leave the Hall and followed the fellow. Plum made for the railroad, where there was a deep cut, and into this cut he fell, just as a train was approaching. At the peril of his life Dave scrambled to the bottom of the opening and drew the bully from the tracks just as the train rolled by.
If ever a boy was conquered, it was Gus Plum at that time.
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At first he could not realize that Dave had saved him. He confessed how he had tried to injure Dave and his chums, but said he had had nothing to do with the robberies. Nick Jasniff had wanted him to go in with the robbers, but he had declined. I want to make a man of myself — if I can. But it was hard work. A short time after the railroad incident the two robbers were caught and sent to prison, to await trial, and Plum had to appear as a witness for the state and tell how he had been implicated.
In the meantime Nick Jasniff ran away to Europe, taking several hundred dollars of the stolen funds with him. Dave thought he had seen the last of the young rascal, but in this he was mistaken, as the events which followed proved. The majority of the boys had been home only for the Thanksgiving holidays.
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The exception was poor Phil Lawrence, who had been laid up for a number of weeks as the result of a blow on the head while playing a game of football. Phil said he felt as well as ever, but he was somewhat pale and in no humor for anything in the way of roughness. As the train stopped at one station and another along the line, it began to fill up with passengers, including a goodly number of Oak Hall students.
At one place Sam Day and Shadow Hamilton came on board, followed by half a dozen snowballs, sent after them by boys who had come to see them off.
The man uttered a cry of surprise, slipped on the platform of the car, and fell flat, crushing his valise under him. At this a shout of laughter rang out from the depot platform, and the lads standing there lost no time in disappearing.
Say, that puts me in mind of a story. Once a man bought some eggs that weren't strictly fresh, and — ". Dave had come to the car door to greet Sam and Shadow and conduct them to a seat near his own. The stout man was so upset mentally that he bumped roughly into the youth.
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He did not like the manner in which he had been addressed. Dave looked at the man for a moment in silence. Last spring I was on the train with a lot of college boys, and they tried to run things to suit themselves. But we fixed 'em, we did. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon.
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