Jack Straw in Mexico
by Irving Crump
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About this eBook
- Author
- Crump, Irving, 1887-1979
- Title
- Jack Straw in Mexico: How the Engineers Defended the Great Hydro-Electric Plant
- Credits
- the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive ( archive.org)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Americans -- Mexico -- Juvenile fiction
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 60941
- Release Date
- December 16, 2019
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.THE ILLUSTRATIONS — JACK STRAW IN MEXICO
- 4.CHAPTER I JACK STRAW’S MISSION TO MEXICO
- 5.CHAPTER II “IN SELF-DEFENSE OR A CAUSE THAT IS HONORABLE”
- 6.CHAPTER III SEASICK
- 7.CHAPTER IV AT ODDS WITH CUSTOMS INSPECTORS
- 8.CHAPTER V IN THE HANDS OF THE SECRET SERVICE
- 9.CHAPTER VI ON TRIAL AS A SPY
- 10.CHAPTER VII OFF FOR NECAXA
- 11.CHAPTER VIII THE CRIPPLED GENERATORS
- 12.CHAPTER IX JACK PROPOSES A TRAP
- 13.CHAPTER X FOOTPRINTS
- 14.CHAPTER XI SEARCHING FOR THE MAN WITH A SCARRED HEEL
- 15.CHAPTER XII THE DRAWINGS ARE STOLEN
- 16.CHAPTER XIII A WEAKENED GARRISON
- 17.CHAPTER XIV THE NIGHT WATCH
- 18.CHAPTER XV IMPROVISED SEARCHLIGHTS
- 19.CHAPTER XVI A WARNING
- 20.CHAPTER XVII “WHO WILL BE FOOD FOR THE VULTURES!”
- 21.CHAPTER XVIII THE WIRES ARE DOWN
- 22.CHAPTER XIX TO THE RESCUE!
- 23.CHAPTER XX “SHOOT! SHOOT!”
- 24.CHAPTER XXI “YES, YES, I DID IT!”
- 25.CHAPTER XXII GOOD-BY, NECAXA
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