Frontispiece: The Pole Was Jerked From the Fat Boy's Hands.
The Pony Rider Boys in Louisiana
or
Following the Game Trails in the Canebrake
by Frank Gee Patchin
Author of The Pony Rider Boys in the Rockies, The Pony Rider Boys
in Texas, The Pony Rider Boys in Montana, The Pony Rider Boys in
the Ozarks, The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali, The Pony Rider Boys
in New Mexico, The Pony Rider Boys with the Texas Rangers, The
Pony Rider Boys on the Blue Ridge, The Pony Rider Boys in New
England, etc., etc.
Illustrated
Philadelphia Henry Altemus Company
Copyright, 1924 by Howard E. Altemus
Printed in the United States of America
Contents
CHAPTER I—SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY
A study in black and white. "I'm the Duke of Missouri." Waxed floors too much for the fat boy. "I sometimes fall off a house to give me an appetite."
CHAPTER II—BOUND FOR THE CANE JUNGLE
Picking out their new ponies. Favors for the brave. Girl friends see the Pony Rider Boys in daring horsemanship. Tad ropes a pickaninny. The colored population treated to an unusual exhibition.
CHAPTER III—IN CAMP ON TENSAS BAYOU
Living with the snakes in the canebrake. Barred owls make the night hideous. Stacy's slumbers greatly disturbed. Little rest for the Pony Rider Boys. Stacy lays the foundation for trouble.
CHAPTER IV—NATURE BLOWS OUT A FUSE
The camp aroused by an explosion. Tents found ablaze. "The campfire has blown up!" Ichabod denies responsibility. Chunky admits his guilt. "Gentlemen, I shot a pig."
CHAPTER V—MAROONED IN A SWAMP
The cook finds Tad's feet out of doors. Strange sights in the jungle. On an island made over night. Snake and bird battle on high. Pony Riders are castaway for three days. A forest of perils.
CHAPTER VI—TAKING DESPERATE CHANCES
Dogs and birds welcome the sunlight. Tad blazes a trail on the cypress knees. "Have all you boys got scents like deerhounds?" Tad Butler amazes Bill Lilly, the guide.
CHAPTER VII—A SWIM IN TENSAS LAKE
Chunky goes in with the alligators. Tad's bullet speeds true. A narrow escape. Stacy up a tree. Ned Rector knows a way to get the fat boy down. Lively times in camp. The Professor takes a hand.
CHAPTER VIII—WOODMAN, SPARE THIS TREE
"No one can stay mad at me for very long." Chunky comes down in a heap. How they wound the hunter's horn. Stacy Brown is left behind and forgotten.
CHAPTER IX—THE FAT BOY HUNG UP
"Whoa, you fool horse!" "Give the baby his horn." A narrow escape from death. Down goes the fat boy again.
CHAPTER X—IN THE HEART OF THE CANEBRAKE
The bush-knife a dangerous weapon. Stacy found dangling in the air. Keeping company with an owl. Tad takes a perilous plunge. Chunky mixes it up with 'gators again.
CHAPTER XI—ON THE BIG GAME TRAILS
Roped on the verge of death. It takes the whole outfit to rescue the fat boy. "That 'gator won't have any further appetite for fat boys." Bear sign in the west.
CHAPTER XII—THE QUEST OF THE PHANTOM DEER
On the tr