The Go Ahead Boys on Smugglers' Island

saw such

ither. I am gl

t off. When we left Mackinac this morning one could hardly tell whether the island was upside down

ppen if a fire should b

where else. They did have a fire over there on

place for the

, but to my mind there is a great difference

iful little motor-boat named the Gadabout. Assisting the captain and owner in the management of the fleet little craft

hough his round face and rounder body gave him the appearance, as one of his friends described it, of a young bantam. He was familiarly known among his companions s

t attained his eighteenth birthday. Familiarly he was known as String and frequently, when he and F

self the nickname of Socrates, which frequently was shortened to Soc. The fourth member of the group was George Washington Sanders, a boy whose good-nature and witty remarks had made him a fav

ut his tanned face. Both he and Eph, when occasion required, served as oarsmen in the two skiffs which the swift Gadabout

, "I hope we'll get some fish to-day. How far do we hav

to go to," drawled the captain in respons

red, "that we were going to the channel be

, if you fish over on the Canad

spoke up Grant Jones. "We'll leave it

t caught on the Canadian side, Captai

e captain, "we'll s

Lake Huron. Scarcely a ripple was to be seen as the boat sped forward. The day promised to be unusually w

h to-day," broke in George Sanders.

ough away from Mac

shing grounds are always a good ways away from where you'r

there are a good many funny things in this world

u mean?" in

say. I heard a famil

rstand you,"

re than a family jar, it was more of a family churn, it was such a big one. There seemed to be

isten to such th

was trying not to do, but I guess anybody on Mackin

people?" inq

n is the one that wears that ice-

erved several times that the immaculateness of hi

rincrustation of unnecessary geological deposits that d

p across the continent to

them than I wish I did, but I d

afternoon when he came in that hi

with Alkali Pete's li

there were great crevasses in

ess I don't know what you're talking about. I'm a good

is companions as he spoke. "His attenuated form doesn't look to me as if it would be able to stand the strain of landi

are you?" demande

hteen in

ill you

ry efforts to appear intellectual you sometimes state things that ar

and scare the fish away. I want to tell you ab

nday, isn't he? The man who is making investigatio

day he dug up some cannon balls. He said the

guides told me that they were the same balls that had been

op?" laug

these old fellows, who are traveling around the island in their gentle, antiquated gait looking for things

ld take the balls away w

the visitors. You go up to the reception room and you'll find so

rant. "It's an easy way to ke

s before this time. Across the narrow channel they saw the shores of Cockburn Island. The latter was within the Canadian boundaries and as the captain o

ad no buildings of any kind. There were high bluff

d, "why are you takin

e captain. "I'm going to take you past it. I'm no

ching the shore of the island, which e

ptly about he several times waved a white cloth, which he held in his hand, to parties that apparently were behind him. Then, once more facing the

kly at one another and for

y had observed was to mean much, both in excitement and