The Boy Scouts and the Army Airship
The Boy Scouts and the Army Airship by John Henry Goldfrap is available here as the complete text, split into 658 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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The Boy Scouts and the Army Airship
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II The Spearing of the Sturgeon
- Chapter III Jack Curtiss Reappears
- Chapter IV Paul Perkins, Motor Scooter
- Chapter V
- Chapter VI Two Mysterious Men
- Chapter VII How a Secret Passage Was Used
- Chapter VIII An Unexpected Encounter
- Chapter IX Wherein Captain Hudgins’ Bees Swarm
- Chapter X
- Chapter XI The Army Airship
- Chapter XII
- Chapter XIII What Happened in the Woods
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV A Boy Who Flew
- Chapter XVI
- Chapter XVII Fire!
- Chapter XVIII Jack Uses a File
- Chapter XIX The Great Race
- Chapter XX A Schooner in Trouble
- Chapter XXI Motor-Scooters to the Rescue
- Chapter XXII Jim Dugan Again
- Chapter XXIII A Chase in the Night
- Chapter XXIV
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Project Gutenberg eBook #62792, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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- Author
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- Scouts
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- Eagle
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- Patrol
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