DODD, MEAD & COMPANY · NEW YORK
1953
Copyright, 1953
By Jim Kjelgaard
All Rights Reserved
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form
without permission in writing from the publisher
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 53-6314
Printed in the United States of America
by Vail-Ballou Press, Inc., Binghamton, N. Y.
TO
David LeClair and Richard Smith
| Chapter One | Storm | 1 |
| Two | Wreck | 16 |
| Three | On the Beach | 34 |
| Four | Trouble for the Spray | 54 |
| Five | Rescue | 73 |
| Six | New Venture | 89 |
| Seven | Partners | 109 |
| Eight | Action | 125 |
| Nine | Pirates | 144 |
| Ten | The Great Fish | 160 |
| Eleven | Fisherman's Luck | 171 |
| Twelve | The Pond | 184 |
The characters and situations in this book are wholly fictional andimaginative: they do not portray and are not intended to portray anyactual persons or parties.
Ramsay Cartou leaned on the rail of the ponderous side-wheeler, the H.H. Holter, and watched without interest while a horse-drawn truckbrought another load of cattle hides on board. The sweating stevedoreswho were loading the Holter and the belaboring mate who supervisedthem began stowing the hides into the hold. The Holter's winch, eitherruined by an inexpert operator or about to fall apart anyhow, wasbroken. All the work had to be done by hand.
Ramsay turned to breathe the clean air that swept in from Lake Michigan.It was impossible, anywhere