The Outdoor Chums After Big Game

Outdoor Chums After Big Game,
by Captain Quincy Allen

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Title: The Outdoor Chums After Big Game Or, Perilous Adventures in
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Author: Captain Quincy Allen
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[Illustration: FILLED WITH MAD RAGE, HE WAS GALLOPING
STRAIGHT TOWARD THEM!--Frontispiece.--Page 66]

THE OUTDOOR CHUMS AFTER BIG GAME
OR
Perilous Adventures in the Wilderness

BY
CAPTAIN QUINCY ALLEN
AUTHOR OF "THE OUTDOOR CHUMS," "THE OUTDOOR
CHUMS ON THE LAKE," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS

THE OUTDOOR CHUMS SERIES
BY CAPTAIN QUINCY ALLEN
THE OUTDOOR CHUMS Or The First Tour of the Rod, Gun and
Camera Club
THE OUTDOOR CHUMS ON THE LAKE Or Lively Adventures on
Wildcat Island
THE OUTDOOR CHUMS IN THE FOREST Or Laying the Ghost of
Oak Ridge
THE OUTDOOR CHUMS ON THE GULF Or Rescuing the Lost
Balloonists

THE OUTDOOR CHUMS AFTER BIG GAME Or Perilous
Adventures in the Wilderness
12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Price, per volume, 50 cents postpaid.
GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY GROSSET & DUNLAP The Outdoor Chums
After Big Game

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I GLORIOUS NEWS 1 II THE MOTORCYCLE THIEVES 14 III
HOMEWARD BOUND BY MOONLIGHT 22 IV STARTING HANK
RIGHT 31 V WESTWARD BOUND 40 VI AT THE VALLEY
RANCH 49 VII THE GRIZZLY AT BAY 60 VIII BLUFF MISSES
SOMETHING 67 IX FRANK HAS HIS TURN 76 X THE YOUNG
HUNTER AND THE ELK 87 XI THE ELK AND THE YOUNG
HUNTER 96 XII HARD LUCK 105 XIII AN INVADER IN CAMP
116 XIV THE COWBOY GUIDE 125 XV IN THE RAPIDS 134 XVI
THE NEW CAMP 143 XVII AT THE CAMPFIRE OF THE CREES
153 XVIII AN INVITATION TO COME OUT 162 XIX A STRANGE
DISCLOSURE 173 XX "WE MUST CUT AND RUN FOR IT!" 182
XXI NEVER GIVE UP 191 XXII THE WAR OF THE ELEMENTS
198 XXIII THE STAMPEDE 206 XXIV A MYSTERY SOLVED 215
XXV HOME AGAIN--CONCLUSION 225

THE OUTDOOR CHUMS AFTER BIG GAME
CHAPTER I
GLORIOUS NEWS

"Hello, there, Red Rover! Come alongside!"
"What's the row, fellows? This dandy breeze is too good to be wasted
loafing."
"Frank's coming in the Jupiter, and coming like a streak!"
"Yes, and more than that, Bluff, he waves his hat as though he had
great news!"
Will Milton and Jerry Wallington sat in the double canoe, that with
flapping sails pointed its stem into the wind; while their chum, Richard
Masters, known among all his schoolmates as Bluff, manipulated the
dainty fifteen-foot cedar craft in which he had been speeding over the
surface of Camalot Lake.
Another midget boat, constructed on the same lines as that in which
Bluff was seated, came flying down before the wind, and presently
brought up alongside the other craft.
It contained a single young fellow, upon whose frank and open face
rested a broad smile that seemed to prophesy pleasing news.
"What makes you look so happy, Frank? Evidently you've heard that
your examination papers were up to the standard, and it's college next
year for yours," remarked Bluff with eagerness, and, it must be
confessed, a tinge of envy in his quivering voice.
"Right for you! But that is only the beginning of my news!" cried Frank
Langdon as he reached out and caught Jerry by the arm.
"Am I in it?" demanded that worthy, seeming to catch his breath.
"Well, I should say you were, and with even better honors than poor me.
Now, the rest of you fellows, don't look that way. It's all right, I tell
you," went on the bearer of news, trying to control his own voice, but
succeeding only a little better than Jerry.
"Say! do you mean it? Did Bluff and I get through, after all?"

exclaimed Will.
Frank nodded his head enthusiastically.
"Careful, now, you wild Indians! Just remember that you're in canoes
that can be upset easily, and unless you want a ducking out in the
middle of the lake, restrain your enthusiasm a bit, please. It isn't the
easiest thing in the world, climbing over the stern of a canoe with all
your clothes on," he warned them.
"But is it really true?" pleaded Will. "Have I crawled through decently?
Well, I'm glad; not only because it will