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“AN IDEAL PUBLICATION FOR THE AMERICAN YOUTH.” Tie Top WEEKLY. Foueved aa Second Class latier at the N, Y. Fost Office. SvTRERT & BMITH, 388 William astute a a, Subseriztz~on $2,50 2:€7 4éa7. & ‘ YY. Kudeved Aceorainp tu Act af Grnigress, in the Year 1898, i the Office of the Librarian of Congress, UN ‘ashington, D C. No. 110 RS EG Ew ee Cha dp 7 a ey me NEW YORK, May 21, 1898. Price Five Cents. Contents of This N amber. FRANK MERRIWELL’S CATCH; or, The Canoe Boys of Lake Sebasticook coe ONE HUNDRED PRIZES - TALES WITH TIP TOP READERS 2 e - CORRESPONDENCE . . “ ‘ THE DOY ARTIST - - 7 SENSE OF TOUCH - - COMIC COLUMN Frank vetiars Catch “$ al a = ae a =a SasBes3s s Ft yg 9 ft ‘ } The Canoe Boys of Lake Sebasticook. By the Author of “FRANK MERRIWELL. CHAPTER I. FISHING. The morning sunshine lay like shining silver on the placid bosom of beautiful Lake Sebasticook. Notacloud hung in the blue sky, and it was a perfect summer morning, for the sun was not yet high enough to make the air uncomfortably warm. Near the mouth of a stream that empties into the northern end of the lake floated a canoe that contained two per- sons who were fishing. The occupants of the canoe were Frank Merriwell and Bart Hodge. In the bottom of the canoe lay more than a dozen large white perch, glittering in the sunlight. That they “ Trolley” the Japanese naval cadet will amuse you in The Half-Holid were a fresh catch was evident, for they had not lost their silvery lustre, and oc- casionally some of them flopped about in a frantic endeavor to get back into the water. | . “Well, they are beauties!’ cried Hodge, as he gazed at them in admira- tion; a few minutes.”’ ‘“That’s what we did,’’ nodded Frank. “IT wonder why they stopped biting so suddenly.” ‘*Don’t know. What are those splashes on the water over that way ?”’ “T know!” exclaimed Frank, suddenly beginning to reel in his line with great swiftness. ‘Pull in, Hodge—pull in!” ‘‘What for?” “Don’t ask questions! Pullin! ‘“‘and we did rope them in fast for COO Gon SS (CO) nn