E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan, and the Project
Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
or, The Yankee-Canadian Wireless Trail
by
Author of
RADIO BOYS IN THE SECRET SERVICE; or, Cast Away on an Iceberg.
RADIO BOYS IN THE FLYING SERVICE; or, Held For Ransom by Mexican Bandits.
RADIO BOYS IN THE ROCKIES; or, The Mystery of the Lost Valley.
1922
I Vacation Plans
II Tragedy or Joke
III Talking it over
IV The Catwhisker
V A Baffling Situation
VI A Mystery and Cub's "Goat"
VII Returning Cub's "Goat"
VIII Mathematics or Geography?
IX The Radio Diagram
X The Island-Surrounded Island
XI The Deserted Camp
XII Hal's Discovery
XIII "Robinson Crusoe's" Diary
XIV More Light and More Mystery
XV The Hook-up on Shore
XVI Running down a Radio Fake
XVII Bud's Discovery
XVIII Unwelcome Visitors
XIX "S.O.S." from Friday Island
XX Four Prisoners
XXI The Hostage
XXII The "Crusoe Mystery" Deepens
XXIII "Sweating" the Prisoner
XXIV "Something Happens"
XXV Bud Shoots
XXVI The Slingshot Victim
XXVII Chased out
XXVIII A Radio Eavesdropper
XXIX The End of the "Mystery"
XXX The Result of a Radio Hazing
Vacation Plans
"Now, fellows, what are we goin' to do this vacation?" demanded Cub Perryas he leaned back in his upholstered reed rocker and hoisted his size 8shoes onto the foot of his bedstead. "School's all over, we've all passedour exams, and now we've got a long vacation before us with nothing todo. It's up to yo-uns to map out a program."
"Why can't you help map it out?" asked Bud Taylor with something of achallenge in his voice. "You always have the last word?"
"Cub's the dictator of our outfit, and we do the work, that's why,"declared Hal Stone. "We always have to listen to him, you know that, Bud.So what's the use o' kickin'?"
"Oh, I'm not kickin'," Bud replied. "It's no use. Cub 'u'd drown us outwith his voice if we hollered. You know you made 'im admit once thatnoise was the only thing that 'u'd convince him."
"You c'n change that now and call it static instead of noise since we'veall become radio experts," smirked Cub with characteristic superiority.
"Ha, ha," laughed Bud.
"Tee-hee," tittered Hal.
By the way, it was from this peculiar manner of laugh, that Hal got hisnickname, Tee-hee. Cub's given name was Robert, shortened sometimes toBob and Bud's was Roy. Cub and Bud were always known by their nicknames,but Hal was addressed as Tee-hee only on fitting or intermittentoccasions.
The three boys w