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The Rover Boys on the Farm is the twelfth installment of Edward Stratemeyer’s long‑running juvenile series that follows the three Rover brothers, Dick, Tom and Sam, in a succession of daring escapades. The opening chapter drops the boys on a mist‑laden mountain, where a mis‑step separates them and a mysterious red lunchbox hints at the trouble to come. The narrative quickly recalls earlier adventures, schoolyard rivalries, ocean voyages, jungle treks, and a houseboat journey down the Mississippi, before steering the trio back to their family’s Valley Brook farm and the familiar halls of Putnam Academy. The plot is anchored in the boys’ camaraderie, their sense of duty to Uncle Randolph, and the promise of new mysteries that will unfold on the farm and beyond.
Written in the brisk, action‑driven prose typical of early twentieth‑century boys’ adventure fiction, the book blends slap‑dash dialogue with descriptive passages of rural New York and school life. Its tone is earnest yet lively, reflecting the period’s ideals of masculinity, loyalty, and resourcefulness. Readers who enjoy serial stories of intrepid youths, schoolyard contests, and wholesome frontier settings, especially those nostalgic for the golden age of American juvenile series, will find this volume a satisfying continuation of the Rover Boys’ saga.
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PREFACE.
MY DEAR BOYS: With this I present to you "The Rover Boys on the Farm," the twelfth volume in the "Rover Boys Series for Young Americans."
It is a large number of volumes to write about one set of characters, isn't it? When I started the series, many years ago, I had in mind, as I have told you before, to pen three books, possibly four. But as soon as I had written "The Rover Boys at School," "The Rover Boys on the Ocean," and "The Rover Boys in the Jungle," there was a cry for more, and so I wrote "The Rover Boys Out West," "On the Great Lakes," "In the Mountains," "On Land and Sea," "In Camp," "On the River," "On the Plains," and then "In Southern Waters," where we last left our heroes.
In the present story, as promised in the last volume, the scene is shifted back to the farm and to dear old Putnam Hall, with their many pleasant associations. As before, Sam, Tom and Dick are to the front, along with several of their friends, and there are a number of adventures, some comical and some strange and mystifying. At the school the rivalries are as keen as ever, but the Rover boys are on their mettle, and prove their worth on more than one occasion.
Again I thank my numerous readers for all the kind words they have spoken about my stories. I hope the present volume will please them in every way.
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