The Motor Boat Club at Nantucket
The Motor Boat Club at Nantucket by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock is available here as the complete text, split into 747 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
The Motor Boat Club at Nantucket by H. Irving (Harrie Irving) Hancock. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #40605.
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The Motor Boat Club at Nantucket
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- Chapter I
- Chapter II Bouncer Wakes Up
- Chapter III The Luckiest Boy in the World
- Chapter IV Sighting the “Pirate”
- Chapter V A Joke on the Enemy
- Chapter VI Tom Has a Bad Quarter of an Hour
- Chapter VII “The Quickest Way of Walking the Plank”
- Chapter VIII
- Chapter IX Ted Hurls a Thunderbolt
- Chapter X Overhauling the Mystery
- Chapter XI Where the Water Trail Ended
- Chapter XII Job Has His Courage Tested
- Chapter XIII
- Chapter XIV
- Chapter XV
- Chapter XVI Following Up the Clue
- Chapter XVII Joe Plays Justice a Scurvy Trick
- Chapter XVIII The Message Under the Rock
- Chapter XIX The Sight Behind the Attic Light
- Chapter XX Blind Man’s Buff in Fearful Earnest
- Chapter XXI The Last Dash to Win
- Chapter XXII Jed Runs a Naval Bombardment
- Chapter XXIII Spying on the Filibusters
- Chapter XXIV Conclusion
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Project Gutenberg eBook #40605, unabridged. The Project Gutenberg header, footer and licence are removed.
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Vocabulary met early in The Motor Boat Club at Nantucket
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- Mystery
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- Dunstan
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- Author
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- Motor
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