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Rifle and Caravan; Or, Two Boys in East Africa
Rifle and Caravan Or Two Boys in East Africa Author:James Barnes General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1912 Original Publisher: New York Book Company Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where y... more »ou can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER V THE MEETING AT HERR GOTTLIEB'S THE boys had said nothing, as yet, to Mrs. Rathbone of their project. Dallas had found out by experience that it was best to approach his mother when his plans had all been made, and he was prepared to answer the first objection which might naturally come to his mother's mind. He was quite certain that she would object at first, but he was just as certain that in the end she would give her permission. The two boys had firmly decided in their minds that before many weeks had gone by they would be on their way to the lion country. In his father's library Dallas had found some old volumes of Speke and Baker, and a much later work of Selous, and others, and pouring over the pages only inflamed their desire for adventure, and their imaginations of the scenes that lay before them. The next morning, shortly after breakfast, they were on their way to the Bronx to keep their appointment with their new-found friend. "I wonder what kind of house he lives in?" said Prentice, looking at the card as they got out at the end of the Third Avenue Elevated. "I hope it isn't in one of those dinky new little brick buildings," responded Dallas, "and I hope we don't have to talk with him in a parlor filled with clocks and pianos and china knick-nacks. I'll tell you what let's do; if we can find a messenger, let's send Mr. Gottlieb word to meet us at the lion house again. Perhaps he's got a family and a lot of girls, and " He paused. Prentice laughed. "You're more scared of girls than any fellow I ever met." "I ain't scared of 'em ex...« less