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THE BOY MINERS;
OR,
THE ENCHANTED ISLAND
A TALE OF THE YELLOWSTONE COUNTRY.
NEW YORK
BEADLE AND ADAMS, PUBLISHERS,
98 WILLIAM STREET.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1874, by
BEADLE AND ADAMS,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER I. | “THERE THEY COME!” |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| CHAPTER XV. |
CHAPTER I.
“THERE THEY COME!”
Young Edwin Inwood leaped down from the small treein which he had been perched for the last half hour, andran swiftly toward the brook where his elder brother,George, and a large negro named Jim Tubbs, were waiting,ever and anon raising their heads, and looking towardsthe boy who was acting as sentinel, several hundred yardsaway, as if they were expecting some such an alarm asthis.
“Quick! they’ll soon be here!” he added in his terribleexcitement.
“How many are there?” inquired George, catching uphis shovel at the same time with his rifle.
“I shouldn’t wonder if there were twenty.