| THE CRUISE OF THE CANOE CLUB. |
| GRAN'MA'S STITCHES. |
| GLUCK. |
| HURRAH! FOUR KINGS! |
| LEO. |
| MR. STUBBS'S BROTHER. |
| MR. THOMPSON AND THE CROWS. |
| SOMETHING ABOUT LIGHTNING. |
| JUBE'S WATER-MELON. |
| OUR POST-OFFICE BOX. |
| vol. iii.—no. 146. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | price four cents. |
| Tuesday, August 15, 1882. | Copyright, 1882, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
THE CRUISE OF THE CANOE CLUB.
BY W. L. ALDEN,
Author of "The Moral-Pirates," "The Cruise of the 'Ghost,'" etc., etc.
Chapter I.
It is a very easy thing for four boys to make up their minds to get fourcanoes and to go on a canoe cruise, but it is not always so easy tocarry out such a project, as Charley Smith, Tom Schuyler, Harry Wilson,and Joe Sharpe discovered.
Canoes cost money; and though some canoes cost more than others, it isimpossible to buy a new wooden canoe of an approved model for less thanseventy-five dollars. Four canoes, at seventy-five dollars each, wouldcost altogether three hundred dollars. As the entire amount ofpocket-money in the possession of the boys was only seven dollars andthirteen cents, it was clear that they were not precisely in a positionto buy canoes.
There was Harry's uncle, who had already furnished his nephew and hisyoung comrades first with a row-boat, and then with a sail-boat. Even abenevolent uncle deserves some mercy, and the boys agreed that it wouldnever do to ask Uncle John to spend three hundred dollars in canoes forthem. "The most we can ask o