Category: Historical Novels
The low sun of a half-spent winter afternoon streaked and splashed the soft undulations of the forest floor with thin, infrequent lines, and scattered blotches of yellow light among the thickening shadows.
The low sun of a half-spent winter afternoon streaked and splashed the soft undulations of the forest floor with thin, infrequent lines, and scattered blotches of yellow light a...
2. CHAPTER II--THE NEW HOMEThe light of a cloudless March morning pervaded the circumscribed landscape when the inmates of the cabin were astir again. Not many moments later, a sudden booming report broke...
3. CHAPTER III--A VISIT TO THE FORTThe summer brought more settlers to these inviting lands of level, fertile soil, and when the woods were again bright with autumnal hues, their broad expanse of variegated color...
4. CHAPTER IV--THE NEW HAMPSHIRE GRANTSA year later, the dispute of the Governors of New York and New Hampshire, concerning the boundaries of the two provinces, was at its height, and the quarrel between claimants of...
5. CHAPTER V--THE EVERGREEN SPRIGUnderstanding the importance of his errand and guessing its purpose, Nathan skulked stealthily along the heavily-wooded border of the highway till past all chance of discovery,...
6. CHAPTER VI--THE YORKERSThough the presentation of claims, under the authority of the New York government, to the land which Seth Beeman occupied by virtue of a title derived from the Governor of New H...
7. CHAPTER VII--THE "JUDGMENT SEATWithout waiting to be bidden, a man of massive mould entered the room. He strode into the firelight, and, wheeling on the hearth, faced the company, his shadow filling half the...
8. CHAPTER VIII--A NOVEL BEAR TRAP"You don't know of anybody hereabouts that wants to hire a good hand, I s'pose?" asked a stranger one August afternoon, as, without unslinging his pack, he set his gun against t...
9. CHAPTER IX--A FRONTIER TRAGEDYOne autumn day after the leaves had faded and fallen, Nathan was busy husking corn, with less thought upon his task and the growing pile of yellow ears than of a promised partri...
10. CHAPTER X--REBELLIONOne day Nathan was gathering ashes from the heaps where the log piles had been burned and storing them in a rude shed. Close by this stood the empty leach-tubs awaiting filling...
11. CHAPTER XI--ESCAPEWhen the accidental shaking of the branch disclosed his refuge, Nathan wished he had taken the easier shelter of a hollow log or the tangle of a windfall. The more so, when he c...
12. CHAPTER XII--A FREE LIFEThe borders of the clearing were dimly defined in the dusk of the next evening, and Nathan was beginning to feel lonely, though he had the hound for company, when Job came in wi...
13. CHAPTER XIII--FOREBODINGS OF STORMAfter many days of fair promises tardily fulfilled, spring had come. The soft air was full of its sounds and odors, the medley of harsh and liquid notes of the myriad blackbirds...
14. CHAPTER XIV--GABRIEL'S GOOD SERVICEOn the afternoon of the 9th of May, 1775, Job and Nathan laid their guns in the canoe and stood beside her ready to set her afloat in the brown water, whose ripples softly lappe...
15. CHAPTER XV--LEADERS AND GUIDEEven while Nathan watched Gabe and his master depart into the forest southward, he became aware the assemblage was moved by some new object of interest. Turning, he saw Colonel...
16. CHAPTER XVI--TICONDEROGAA halt was silently signalled, and Job, the skilfullest scout of all this band of woodsmen, was sent forward to reconnoitre. Silently, as a ghost, his tall figure melted into th...
17. CHAPTER XVII--HOME COMING"Yes, I've been thinking of home and mother and sis. Guess I needn't be afraid of ol' Toombs any longer, but I don't know as I could keep my hands off'n him. I always meant to g...