Tales of adventure, selected from Ballantyne's miscellany

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Page 30 - The commotion or disturbance thus created produces two great currents— from the equator to the poles and from the poles to the equator. But...
Page 31 - suggested Winch, in a halfchuckling undertone. " Brother Pierce, then ! " echoed Theron, impatiently. "The Quarterly Conference and the Estimating Committee deal with that. The trustees have no more to do with it than the man in the moon.
Page viii - Redskin. 8. Saved by the Lifeboat; or, A Tale of Wreck and Rescue on the Coast.
Page vi - SUNK AT SEA ; or, The Adventures of Wandering Will in the Pacific. 6. LOST IN THE FOREST ; or, Wandering Will in South America.
Page 65 - The next day brought us to a lovely little spot, a small prairie of perhaps 200 acres, surrounded by low wooded hills, and on one side a lake winding with many an inlet amongst the hills and into the plain, while here and there a tiny promontory, richly clothed with pines and aspens, stretched out into the water. The beauty of the place had struck the rude voyageurs, its only visitors, except the Indians, and they had named it La Belle Prairie. As we crossed it, we remarked to one another what a...
Page 38 - in a state of utter weariness and depression ! B puts his whole soul into the thing on the principle that ' whatever is worth doing is worth doing well ' : he masters the genealogies : he calls up pictures before his ' mind's eye ' as he reads about the scenery : best of all, he resolutely shuts the book at the end of some chapter, while his interest is yet at its keenest, and turns to other subjects ; so that, when next he allows himself an hour...

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