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The Great Quest: A Romance of 1826, Wherein are Recorded the Experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham, and of Those Others With Whom He Sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea (Classic Reprint)
The Great Quest A Romance of 1826 Wherein are Recorded the Experiences of Josiah Woods of Topham and of Those Others With Whom He Sailed for Cuba and the Gulf of Guinea - Classic Reprint Author:Charles Boardman Hawes CHAPTER I TH.8 STHANGER ONE morning early in the summer of 1826, I brushed the sweat from llly forehead and the flour from my clothes, unrolled my shirt-sleeves to my wrists, donned my coat, and, with never a suspicion that that day was to be unlika any other, calmly valked out into the slanting sunshine. Rain had fallen in the night, and the ai... more »r was still fresn and cool. Although the clock had but just struck SL,,{, I had been at work an hour! and DOW that my uncle, Seth Upham, had come down to take charge of the store, I was glad that some business discussed the evening before ga.ve Ine an excuse to go on an errand to the other end of the village. Uncle Seth looked up from his ledger as I passed. (cYou ure prompt to go," said he. "I've scarce got my hat on thc peg. Vell, the sooner the better, I suppose. Young ~Iackay's last shipment of oil was of poor quality and color. The rascal needs a good wigging, but the best you can do is tell the old man my opinion
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CONTENTS; T; AN OLD ACQGAINTANCE; I The Stranger ; n !Vly Uncle Behavcs Queerly; III Higgleby's Barn; IV Swords and Ships ; V A nIysteriou5 Project; II; HANDS ACROSS THE SEA; VI Good-bye to Old Haunts and Faces; VII A Vild Nigh t ; VIII The Brig Adventure ; IX An Old Sea Soog ; III; A LOV LAXD IN THE EAST; X 1,1 a U·erson ; XI 1 ew Light on all Old Friend ; XII Captain:N orlh Again; XIII I~sucs Sharply Dra,vn; XIV I,nnd Ho! ; IV; THREE DESPERATE 11EN; XV The Island ; 3; 12; 18; 26; 36; 49; 63; SI; 87; 09; 109; ]19; 132; ]37; 151; XVI StraDgc~t of A 11 ] G5 XVII The 11~n from the Jungle; XVIII A 'Yarning Defied"; XIX Burned Bridgc~ ; V; THE HO"(JSE ON THE HILL; XX Up Strenm ,; JL"XI A Gl"irn Surprise; XXII Siege; L'XIII Sortie ; VI; FOR OCn YERY LIVES; XXIV Spea~ in the Dark; x-X V Cards and Che~s; LXYI An Unseen Foe ; xXVII The Fort Falls« less