A JOLLY FELLOWSHIP

CONTENTS.


_Chapter._ _Page._

I. WE MAKE A START 1

II. GOING BACK WITH THE PILOT 16

III. RECTUS OPENS HIS EYES 29

IV. TO THE RESCUE 43

V. STORMING SAN MARCO 56

VI. THE GIRL ON THE BEACH 69

VII. MR. CHIPPERTON 88

VIII. THE STEAM-BOAT IN THE FOREST 100

IX. THE THREE GRAY BEANS 116

X. THE QUEEN ON THE DOOR-STEP 128

XI. REGAL PROJECTS 140

XII. RECTUS LOSES RANK 154

XIII. THE CORONATION 166

XIV. A HOT CHASE 178

XV. A STRANGE THING HAPPENS TO ME 191

XVI. MR. CHIPPERTON KEEPS PERFECTLY COOL 204

XVII. WHAT BOY HAS DONE, BOY MAY DO 217

XVIII. I WAKE UP MR. CHIPPERTON 229

XIX. THE LIFE-RAFT 241

XX. THE RUSSIAN BARK 252

XXI. THE TRIP OF THE TUG 263

XXII. LOOKING AHEAD 274

XXIII. UNCLE CHIPPERTON'S DINNER 285

XXIV. THE STORY ENDS 296





CHAPTER I.

WE MAKE A START.


I was sitting on the deck of a Savannah steam-ship, which was lying at a
dock in the East River, New York. I was waiting for young Rectus, and
had already waited some time; which surprised me, because Rectus was, as
a general thing, a very prompt fellow, who seldom kept people waiting.
But it was probably impossible for him to regulate his own movements
this time, for his father and mother were coming with him, to see him
off.

I had no one there to see me off, but I did not care for that. I was
sixteen years old, and felt quite like a man; whereas Rectus was only
fourteen, and couldn't possibly feel like a man--unless his looks very
much belied his feelings. My father and mother and sister lived in a
small town some thirty miles from New York, and that was a very good
reason for their not coming to the city just to see me sail away in a
steam-ship. They took a good leave of me, though, before I left home.

I shall never forget how I first became acquainted with Rectus. About a
couple of years before, he was a new boy in the academy at Willisville.