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The Voyage of the Rattletrap

Hayden Carruth

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I could see the horses lying asleep like dark mounds. But the mysterious noise kept up, and even grew louder. I grasped the gun firmly, and let myself cautiously out of the front end of the wagon. Then I climbed back in less softly and hung up the gun.

"Wh-what is it?" asked Ollie, in a faint whisper.

"It's your eloquent Uncle Jack snoring," I said. "He's one of Grandpa Oldberry's sim'lar varmints."

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III: FROM LOOKOUT LAKE TO THE MISSOURI RIVER


Our first night in the Rattletrap passed without further incident--that is, the greater part of it passed, though Ollie declared that it lacked a good deal of being all passed when we got up. The chief reason for our early rise was Old Blacky, a member of our household (or perhaps wagonhold) not yet introduced in this history. Old Blacky was the mate of Old Browny, and the two made up our team of horses. Old Browny was a very well-behaved, respectable old . . . Read More

Community Reviews

A wonderful story written in the 1890s about three young men setting out to "have a time" and tour the country west of their native Kansas. Borrowing a rickety old wagon whose four wheels all go in different directions at once (including backwards), and devolving from there, the three have one misha

The Rattletrap rides like a rip-roarious, slapstick road trip set in the old west, pioneering days. Three friends, a lazy dog, a dubious pony, and a pair of horses set out west and back again, stumbling upon all sorts of misadventures. The Rattletrap proceeds much like modern comedies set around the

Another in my quest to read every humourous book ever written.

Not as funny as "Three Men in a Boat" and nowhere near as beautiful of interesting as "Narrow Road to the Interior". This is an inoffensive little book that may please some lovers of historical travelogues.

While the humourous parts are fa