Jack Norths Treasure Hunt; Or, Daring Adventures in South America By: Roy Rockwood

Jack North's Treasure Hunt; Or, Daring Adventures in South America

• Author : Roy Rockwood
• Publisher : Rarebooksclub.com
• ISBN-13 : 9781459090491

About Jack North's Treasure Hunt; Or, Daring Adventures in South America

The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint.Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III A LONG TRIP PROPOSED Having seen Mires carry off the other wheel with comparative ease, Jack naturally expected to lift the remaining one without trouble. His amazement may be therefore understood when, at his first effort, he failed to move it an inch from the floor. It lay there as solid as if bound down! His failure was the signal for Fret Offut to break out into a loud laugh, which was instantly caught up by the workmen, until the whole building rang with the merriment. " Baby! " some one cried. " See Mires carry his. North ain't got the strength of a mouse! " By that time Mires had reached the opposite end of the shop, and was putting down his burden to turn and join in the outbursts over the discomfiture of his young companion. Jack had now awakened to the realization that he had been the easy victim of a scheme to cast ridicule upon him. Mires could never have carried away this wheel. The thought of the trick which had been played upon him aroused all the latent energy he possessed. He did not believe the wheel could weigh five hundred pounds, and if it did not he would lift it, as he believed he could. Thus, with the shouts and laughter of the spectators ringing in his ears, Jack stooped for a second attempt to accomplish what no one else had ever been able to do. " I'll grunt for you! " called Offut in derision. " Spit on your hands! " said a workman. Jack compressed his lips for a mighty effort, and his hands closed on the rim of the wheel, while he concentrated every atom of strength he had for the herculean task. The cries of the onlookers suddenly stopped as they saw, to their amazement, the ponderous object rise from the floor, slowly but surely, until the young workman held it abreast of him. Not a sound...

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