The Young Surveyor;

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Author

Trowbridge, J. T. (John Townsend), 1827-1916

Title

The Young Surveyor; Or, Jack on the Prairies

Credits

Produced by David Edwards, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Surveyors -- Juvenile fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

28680

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28680

Release Date

May 4, 2009

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE YOUNG SURVEYOR; — OR,
2. 2.BY J. T. TROWBRIDGE — AUTHOR OF "JACK HAZARD AND HIS FORTUNES," ETC. — WITH ILLUSTRATIONS. — BOSTON: JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY, Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co. 1875. — Copyright, 1875. By JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO. — University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge. — HOW THE BOYS WENT TO THE RIVER FOR WATER.
3. 3.CONTENTS.
4. 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
5. 5.THE YOUNG SURVEYOR.
6. 6.CHAPTER I. — "NOTHING BUT A BOY."
7. 7.CHAPTER II. — OLD WIGGETT'S SECTION CORNER. — SETTING THE STAKES.
8. 8.CHAPTER III. — THE HOMEWARD TRACK.
9. 9.CHAPTER IV. — A DEER HUNT, AND HOW IT ENDED. — JACK AND THE STRANGE YOUTH.
10. 10.CHAPTER V. — THE BOY WITH ONE SUSPENDER. — UP-HILL WORK.
11. 11.CHAPTER VI. — "LORD BETTERSON'S." — "LORD BETTERSON."
12. 12.CHAPTER VII. — JACK AT THE "CASTLE."
13. 13.CHAPTER VIII. — HOW VINNIE MADE A JOURNEY.
14. 14.CHAPTER IX. — VINNIE'S ADVENTURE. — TOO OBLIGING BY HALF.
15. 15.CHAPTER X. — JACK AND VINNIE IN CHICAGO.
16. 16.CHAPTER XI. — JACK'S NEW HOME.
17. 17.CHAPTER XII. — VINNIE'S FUTURE HOME. — LINK DOESN'T CARE TO BE KISSED.
18. 18.CHAPTER XIII. — WHY JACK DID NOT FIRE AT THE PRAIRIE CHICKEN. — SHOT ON THE WING.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIV. — SNOWFOOT'S NEW OWNER. — THE AMIABLE MR. PEAKSLOW.
20. 20.CHAPTER XV. — GOING FOR A WITNESS.
21. 21.CHAPTER XVI. — PEAKSLOW GETS A QUIRK IN HIS HEAD.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVII. — VINNIE MAKES A BEGINNING. — VINNIE'S STRATAGEM.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII. — VINNIE'S NEW BROOM.
24. 24.CHAPTER XIX. — LINK'S WOOD-PILE. — LINK'S WOOD-PILE.
25. 25.CHAPTER XX. — MORE WATER THAN THEY WANTED.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXI. — PEAKSLOW SHOWS HIS HAND.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXII. — THE WOODLAND SPRING.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIII. — JACK'S "BIT OF ENGINEERING." — TESTING THE LEVEL.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIV. — PREPARING FOR THE ATTACK. — OLD WIGGETT.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXV. — THE BATTLE OF THE BOUNDARY FENCE. — "STOP, OR I'LL SHOOT!"
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVI. — VICTORY. — RETURNING IN TRIUMPH.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVII. — VINNIE IN THE LION'S DEN.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVIII. — AN "EXTRAORDINARY" GIRL.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXIX. — ANOTHER HUNT, AND HOW IT ENDED. — THE END OF THE CHASE.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXX. — JACK'S PRISONER.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXI. — RADCLIFF. — JACK AND HIS JOLLY PRISONER.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXII. — AN IMPORTANT EVENT.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXIII. — MRS. WIGGETT'S "NOON-MARK."
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIV. — THE STRANGE CLOUD. — THE TORNADO COMING.
40. 40.CHAPTER XXXV. — PEAKSLOW IN A TIGHT PLACE.—CECIE. — PEAKSLOW REAPPEARS.
41. 41.CHAPTER XXXVI. — "ON THE WAR TRAIL."
42. 42.CHAPTER XXXVII. — THE MYSTERY OF A PAIR OF BREECHES. — FOLLOWING THE WAR TRAIL UNDER DIFFICULTIES.
43. 43.CHAPTER XXXVIII. — THE MORNING AFTER.
44. 44.CHAPTER XXXIX. — FOLLOWING UP THE MYSTERY.
45. 45.CHAPTER XL. — PEAKSLOW'S HOUSE-RAISING.
46. 46.CHAPTER XLI. — CONCLUSION. — THE WATER QUESTION SETTLED. — THE END.

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