Harper's Young People

Harper's Young People, May 4, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly

Various· 2 chapters· 13,362 words

Sailors have a proverb that Valetta Harbor is like a hen-coop--"no gittin' out when you're in, and no gittin' in when you're out." So thought Frank, as the steamer glided into a narrow channel between the two enormous forts of the outer harbor, through the embrasures of which...

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2. Chapter 2

In the last chapter I told you how Washington kept the British out of Philadelphia during the winter of 1776 and 1777. The next year the British came around from New York by wat...

1. Chapter 1

Sailors have a proverb that Valetta Harbor is like a hen-coop--"no gittin' out when you're in, and no gittin' in when you're out." So thought Frank, as the steamer glided into a...