Beadle's Pocket Library No. 263

Buster Bob's Buoy This serialized story by Captain J. F. C. Adams, appearing in this Beadle and Adams publication, features an adventure narrative set on the Florida coast during the Seminole Wars. Young Hugh Havens, a shipwreck survivor seeking adventure, has joined Light-house Keeper Lige at an isolated beacon station. From the lighthouse, they observe Osceola's Seminole forces gathering at Haunted Lake nearby, apparently planning to intercept an expected war-steamer. Lige, committed to maintaining the lighthouse despite danger, urges Havens to leave by ship when it arrives. Meanwhile, Buster Bob—a jovial, portly hermit living alone at the lake's shore—is characterized as a universally friendly hunter and fisherman who maintains mysterious comings and goings. The narrative develops themes of frontier loyalty, military conflict, and individual heroism amid wilderness dangers.