Travel, War, and ShipwreckAlso published in the "Boy's Own Favourite Series", this is a nineteenth-century adventure story for boys, based on the author's own experiences as a world traveller. It includes gripping scenes such as an account of crossing the Santa Fe Trail and fights with "Red Skins" in America. The first-person narrative purports to be by the son of a naval lieutenant. |
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... cause . When she had done so , she attacked me with a broom ; the boots and waiter came to her support . I was again obliged to fly , and my wounded pride has compelled me ever since to give up a favourite haunt . " To this moment I am ...
... cause . When she had done so , she attacked me with a broom ; the boots and waiter came to her support . I was again obliged to fly , and my wounded pride has compelled me ever since to give up a favourite haunt . " To this moment I am ...
Page 34
... causes the horses to lay back their ears and plunge madly forward . Vladimir , the serf , turns , and in a deep mellow voice calls- " Master , wake ! " I rouse myself , and ere I can answer it is unnecessary to ask why I am called . The ...
... causes the horses to lay back their ears and plunge madly forward . Vladimir , the serf , turns , and in a deep mellow voice calls- " Master , wake ! " I rouse myself , and ere I can answer it is unnecessary to ask why I am called . The ...
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... cause of my banishment ; possibly this occasioned my popularity ; notwithstanding this I could not help feel- ing that I was a stranger in a strange land , for I had a mother and friends and relatives whom I dared not visit . The funds ...
... cause of my banishment ; possibly this occasioned my popularity ; notwithstanding this I could not help feel- ing that I was a stranger in a strange land , for I had a mother and friends and relatives whom I dared not visit . The funds ...
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... our room to see that all was right for the night . I asked the cause of the tur- moil . " Mr Sweeney , " he said , " had had a rough and tum- ble - fight with Jacque Crider , and had got CHAPTER VIII ACROSS THE PRAIRIE,
... our room to see that all was right for the night . I asked the cause of the tur- moil . " Mr Sweeney , " he said , " had had a rough and tum- ble - fight with Jacque Crider , and had got CHAPTER VIII ACROSS THE PRAIRIE,
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... caused in our ranks , and the craving he had excited among us to shed his blood , for he grazed on in a line with our route till less than a mile severed him from the head of our column . Then the chief despatched one of the ...
... caused in our ranks , and the craving he had excited among us to shed his blood , for he grazed on in a line with our route till less than a mile severed him from the head of our column . Then the chief despatched one of the ...
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