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CHAPTBK IV.

THE BOYS' AMBITION*.

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The Boys' Ambition — Village Scenes — Steamboat Pictures— A Heavy
Swell— A fiunaway .......... 40

CHAPTER V.

I WANT TO BE A CUB- PILOT.

A Traveller— A Lively Talker— A Wild-cat Victim ..... 47

CHAPTER

A CUB- PILOT'S EXPERIENCE.

Besieging the Pilot — Taken along— Spoiling a Nap — Fishing for &
Plantation — * Points ' on the JEUver— A Grorgeons Pilot-house , . 65

CHAPTER TIL

A DARING DEED.

Siver Inspectors — Cottonwoods and Plnm Point — Hat-Island Crossing —

Touch and Go — Ifc is a Go — A Lightning Pilot . . . .67

CHAPTER TIIL

PERPLEXING LESSONS.

A Heavy-loaded Big Gun — Sharp Sights in Darkness — Abandoned to MB
F«te — Scraping the Banks — Learn b*m or Kill Mm «... 77

CHAPTER IX.
CONTINUED PERPLEXITIES.
Shake the Beef — Beason Dethroned — The Face of the Water _ A
Bewitching Scene — Eomance and Beauty •«,...