A Jolly Fellowship

A Jolly Fellowship, by Frank R. Stockton

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Title: A Jolly Fellowship
Author: Frank R. Stockton
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Language: English
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A JOLLY FELLOWSHIP.

FRANK R. STOCKTON'S WRITINGS
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[Illustration: "BANG! BANG! BANG!--SEVEN TIMES."
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A JOLLY FELLOWSHIP
BY
FRANK R. STOCKTON
AUTHOR OF "RUDDER GRANGE," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW-YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1901

Copyright, 1880, by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS.

TROW'S PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY, NEW YORK.
This story is told by Will Gordon, a young fellow about sixteen years old, who saw for himself everything worth seeing in the course of the events he relates, and so knows much more about them than any one who would have to depend upon hearsay. Will is a good-looking boy, with brown hair and gray eyes, rather large for his age, and very fond of being a leader among his young companions. Whether or not he is good at that sort of thing, you can judge from the story he tells.

CONTENTS.
Chapter. Page.
I. WE MAKE A START 1
II. GOING BACK WITH THE PILOT 16
III. RECTUS OPENS HIS EYES 29
IV. TO THE RESCUE 43
V. STORMING SAN MARCO 56
VI. THE GIRL ON THE BEACH 69
VII. MR. CHIPPERTON 88
VIII. THE STEAM-BOAT IN THE FOREST 100
IX. THE THREE GRAY BEANS 116
X. THE QUEEN ON THE DOOR-STEP 128
XI. REGAL PROJECTS 140
XII. RECTUS LOSES RANK 154
XIII. THE CORONATION 166
XIV. A HOT CHASE 178
XV. A STRANGE THING HAPPENS TO ME 191
XVI. MR. CHIPPERTON KEEPS PERFECTLY COOL 204
XVII. WHAT BOY HAS DONE, BOY MAY DO 217
XVIII. I WAKE UP MR. CHIPPERTON 229
XIX. THE LIFE-RAFT 241
XX. THE RUSSIAN BARK 252
XXI. THE TRIP OF THE TUG 263
XXII. LOOKING AHEAD 274
XXIII. UNCLE CHIPPERTON'S DINNER 285
XXIV. THE STORY ENDS 296

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
Page. "BANG! BANG! BANG!--SEVEN TIMES." (Frontispiece.)
"SHE SEIZED ME BY BOTH HANDS" 10
THE VESSEL IS OFF 17
SCOTT AND THE CAPTAIN 19
RECTUS AND THE LEMONS 27
"'HOLD YOUR TONGUE!' ROARED MR. RANDALL" 32
"RECTUS SHOWED ME THE MAP" 35
"HOW?" 46
"ANOTHER BEAN" 64
"THE GENTLEMAN WAVED HIS HAT TO US" 80
"WHY, HOW DO YOU DO?" 88
"VOY-EZZ VOWS CETT HOMMY ETT SES DUCKS FEMMYS SEELAH?" 110
"WE SAW HER SLOWLY RISING BENEATH US" 119
"'ALL RIGHT,' SAID GOLIAH, WITH A SMILE" 157
A SMALL DIVE 170
"I WOULDN'T LIKE IT MYSELF" 197
"WE STRUCK OUT TOGETHER FOR THE BOAT" 224
"'KEEP PERFECTLY COOL,' SAID MR. CHIPPERTON" 239
"RECTUS HELPED ME TO FASTEN THE LIFE-PRESERVER" 243
"YOU'RE A REGULAR YOUNG TRUMP" 277

A JOLLY FELLOWSHIP.
CHAPTER I.
WE MAKE A START.
I was sitting on the deck of a Savannah steam-ship, which was lying at a dock in the East River, New York. I was waiting for young Rectus, and had already waited some time; which surprised me, because Rectus was, as a general thing, a very prompt fellow, who seldom kept people waiting. But it was probably impossible for him to regulate his own movements this time, for his father and mother were coming with him, to see him off.
I had no one there to see me off, but I did not care for that. I was sixteen years old, and felt quite like a man; whereas Rectus was only fourteen, and couldn't possibly feel like a man--unless his looks very much belied his feelings. My father and mother and sister lived in a small town some thirty miles from New York, and that was a very good reason for their not coming to the city just to see me sail away in a steam-ship. They took