Download or read book THE CRUISE OF THE CANOE CLUB written by W. L. ALDEN and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 1911-01-01 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IT is a very easy thing for four boys to make up their minds to get four canoes and to go on a canoe cruise, but it is not always so easy to carry out such a project—as Charley Smith, Tom Schuyler, Harry Wilson, and Joe Sharpe discovered. Canoes cost money; and though some canoes cost more than others, it is impossible to buy a new wooden canoe of an approved model for less than seventy-five dollars. Four canoes, at seventy-five dollars each, would cost altogether three hundred dollars. As the entire amount of pocket-money in the possession of the boys was only seven dollars and thirteen cents, it was clear that they were not precisely in a position to buy canoes......