Chapter I: Front Matter

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JACK STRAW, LIGHTHOUSE BUILDER

JACK STRAW, LIGHTHOUSE BUILDER

by

IRVING CRUMP

Author of “Jack Straw in Mexico,” etc.

Illustrations by Leslie Crump

New York Robert M. McBride & Company 1915

Copyright, 1915, by Robert M. McBride & Co.

Published October, 1915

To A Tom-Boy PEGGY

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

In presenting this account of Jack Straw’s latest adventures it has been my good fortune to have the friendly advice of Dr. Raymond Haskell, Superintendent of the Third Light House District, and William H. Moon of the Lighthouse Service. I have also sought for assistance the pages of Commissioner George R. Putnam’s “Beacons of the Sea,” Talbot’s “Light Ships and Lighthouses” and the “Lighthouse Service Bulletin.”

J. I. C.

East Orange,
September, 1915.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I JACK RECEIVES A TELEGRAM 1

II “HOOD ISLAND--HO!” 13

III THE RUNAWAY 32

IV BIG O’BRIEN GETS HIS BICEPS INTO ACTION 48

V MEN OF HONOR 64

VI WINNING THE ROCK 89

VII UNDER ARREST 107

VIII LOBSTER PIRATES 127

IX THE RAID 145

X THE CHASE 164

XI RAY’S FIND 188

XII THE REEF’S TOLL 214

XIII THE NEW FULL-BACK 232

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

“Jack and Big O’Brien were the first to ride down to
the Lighthouse site on the aërial cable.”

_Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

“The fight ended there” 60

“Hit’s a close race, me ‘arties, fer ‘e’s comin’ fast” 184

“The finest flapjacks that ever were cooked” 214

DIAGRAM

Sketch of Hood Island and Cobra Reef 66

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