Download or read book The Rogue Elephant the Boys Big Game Series written by Whitney Elliott and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book The Rogue Elephant written by Elliott Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rogue Elephant the Boys Big Game Series written by Fred J. Arting and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-06-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A CHANCE "OUT" "You are so crazy as a loon! Boys? Boys to such a drip dake? Nein!" Von Hofe excitedly pounded the table until the attendants at the Explorers' Club stared. Then he leaned back determinedly and lighted his meerschaum. The lean, bronzed man who sat opposite pushed away his maps with a smile. "You misunderstand, von Hofe. I know both these boys personally and vouch for them. You have agreed that this is to be no milk-and-water trip, with hundreds of porters bearing bath tubs and toilet water, but that we shall live off the land as we go. That right?" The German nodded amid a cloud of smoke. "You want me to take you into the elephant country and shoot your specimens. I have agreed to do this. I know Africa and I can do it. You are paying the expenses of the trip, but that is immaterial. If we hitch up, von Hofe, it will be on the understanding that I am in command of this expedition; that I choose those I want to go along, and that you are with me to prepare your specimens and nothing else. Now you can take it or leave it-that's final." The elderly German paused before replying, the two men searching each other's faces quietly. As most people have it, the famous Dr. Gross von Hofe was a "taxidermist." The average "stuffer," the man who simply covers and replaces the bones of the specimen with excelsior or cotton, is properly named taxidermist, but von Hofe was an artist, known the world over for his wonderful work. In various museums of the world you may see his models, signed like the masterpieces of other artists, of rare and disappearing animals from the distant quarters of the earth, frozen in action, with the setting of the trees, grass, sand or water of their native haunts. The other, somewhat younger than the famous artist in skin and bone, was an American of German descent-Louis Schoverling. He was one of that little class of world-wanderers, who have barely enough money to carry them about the earth's strange places, hunting and exploring, gradually pushing the frontier of civilization back into the savage quarters of the world, and most happy when self-dependent and forced to rely on gun or hook for a day's meal. So when Dr. von Hofe was commissioned by two celebrated museums to visit East Africa and secure for each a family group of elephants-tusker bull, calf, and cow-it was natural that he should come to the New York Explorers' Club for a helper and guide. There he had picked on Louis Schoverling-or "the General," as his fellow-explorers had laughingly dubbed him after the failure of a certain South American revolution-to take him to the tuskers. Dr. von Hofe was not a hunter and he knew it. So Schoverling had agreed to go, not for the money in the trip, but for the excitement of it. "I see," returned the big German at last, "why your comrades call you 'the General.' You are right. You shall take whom you like, und if I say you are crazy as a loon, it makes no difference. You are satisfied?" "Quite," laughed the American. "When do we start?" "Three weeks from to-day," returned the other, whose English was perfect save in moments of excitement....
Download or read book The Rogue Elephant written by Elliott Whitney and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1913. The Rogue Elephant is from the 13 volume Boys' Big Game Series. The story begins: You are so crazy as a loon! Boys? Boys to such a drip dake? Nein! Von Hofe excitedly pounded the table until the attendants at the Explorers' Club stared. Then he leaned back determinedly and lighted his meerschaum. The lean, bronzed man who sat opposite pushed away his maps with a smile. You misunderstand, von Hofe. I know both these boys personally and vouch for them. You have agreed that this is to be no milk-and-water trip, with hundred of porters bearing bath tubs and toilet water, but that we shall live off the land as we go. That right? See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.
Download or read book The Boy Scouts of the Air at Eagle Camp written by Gordon Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land written by Gordon Stuart and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-10-05 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Boy Scouts of the Air in Indian Land" by Gordon Stuart. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book Aunt Jane s Nieces and Uncle John written by Lyman Frank Baum and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John picks up the continuing story of the three cousins Patsy Doyle, Beth De Graf, and Louise Merrick, and their family; the plot of the book begins three days after the wedding of Louise and her fiance Arthur Weldon. The sixth novel begins with the cousins' Uncle John getting an inspiration for a new adventure: in this case, the family will escape a cold New York City winter by taking a trip to southern California, the land of "sunshine and roses."
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Download or read book Aunt Jane s Nieces Abroad written by Edith Van Dyne and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1906 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Library Journal written by Melvil Dewey and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 1330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Download or read book Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country written by St. George Henry Rathborne and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We must be pretty nearly there now, Tom, I take it!" "I reckon we'll sight the dugout inside of half an hour or so, Felix; if the description, and the little chart old Sol Ten Eyck gave me, are correct." "Well, I'll sure be glad when we arrive, because this pack is getting heavier, it seems to me, every hour now. One thing certain, Chum Tom, we'll go out of this part of the country a heap lighter than we're coming in; with all this good grub swallowed up after two months roughing it. Been three days on the trail now, since Frazer turned us loose out of his big bull-boat." They were two pretty well-grown boys, the one tall and slender; while the other, whom he called Tom, seemed stockily built, with the ruddy hue of perfect health on his sun and wind tanned cheeks. Tom was really Tom Tucker, and the taller young hunter, Felix Edmondson. Besides repeating rifles of a modern make, and such ordinary accompaniments as ditty bags and hunting knives, the lads were carrying heavy packs on their backs, to each of which were also strapped a pair of snow-shoes, proving that they anticipated staying around the foothills of the great Rocky Mountains, for some time at least, and were prepared for getting around when several feet of snow covered the ground. They were in a region not a great distance from the border of that Wonderland which Uncle Sam has transferred into a grand playground, known far and wide as the Yellowstone Park. In fact, a range of the Rocky Mountains towered almost above them as they looked up, standing out against the blue afternoon sky like a rock-ribbed barrier. Around them lay the great forest that in many places grows at the base of the giant uplifts that are well called the back-bone of the continent. It was a wild region, seldom pressed by the foot of man; save when some Indian or trapper chose to pursue his calling—the "primeval wilderness," Felix was fond of calling it, in his humorous way. Felix was a city-bred boy who had ambitions to take up his father's profession later in life, and shine as a surgeon. But not being very strong, it was under this parent's wise advice that he was now knocking off for a year from his studies, and getting in the great Outdoors all he possibly could, in order to build himself up, so as to have a good foundation for the hard work that lay before him. And he was succeeding wonderfully, since there is nothing better under the sun to change a weakly boy into a sturdy man than this free life of the Wild West. If proof of this statement were needed, it could be demonstrated in the life of Theodore Roosevelt himself, who took the same course of treatment. As for Tom Tucker, he had always lived pretty much in the open ever since his father bought that Wyoming cattle range with its herds. Between times Tom had attended school, so that he was far from being ignorant; the fact of his great love of reading also put him in touch with what was going on in the world, whether in the line of scientific discoveries, exploration, or the constant change in the map of nations.
