Category: Adventure
It was what is called a real old-fashioned Yuletide. The snow had been falling, falling, falling all day long; it had begun at grey daylight in the morning, in little pellets like millet seed, which lay white and unmelted on the frozen pavements. But as the hours went by, thes...
It was what is called a real old-fashioned Yuletide. The snow had been falling, falling, falling all day long; it had begun at grey daylight in the morning, in little pellets li...
2. CHAPTER II"O children," cried old Mrs. Morgan during a lull in the frolicsome riot, "here comes your uncle Tom. I can hear his voice in the hall. Now we'll have a song and a dance!"
3. CHAPTER III.She had been well educated and delicately reared in the lap of wealth and luxury. She was an old man's only child, and her father considered there was nothing on earth too good...
4. CHAPTER IV.As she bent over the bed in grief and sorrow, Mrs. Malony was rewarded and startled at the same time. For the poor patient heaved a sigh, and slowly opened her eyes.
5. CHAPTER V."Please, sir, mother wouldn't let me. You see, sir, you were very good to me that Christmas eve, and mother said if I went back it would look just like--begging, you know, sir."
6. CHAPTER VI.But wait a minute, reader. I fear I must call our little hero Johnnie Greybreeks no longer--at least not while he is under the lordly roof-tree of Drumglen. He must be Jack.
7. CHAPTER VII.And hardly had the last notes of the pipe ceased as quickly as if they had been cut off clear and sharp by the wind, than the men came rattling up the ladders to duty.
8. CHAPTER VIII.Midshipman Jack was among the first on deck. All he could see was the star-lit, wind-tossed waves that, at each dip of the good ship's prow, rose like mountains right ahead, or,...
9. CHAPTER IX.Before Jack Mackenzie came to sea, he had received, as far as any boy could, a thoroughly theoretical education. His grandmother had seen to that. Much she would have liked to h...
10. CHAPTER X.Though far wilder scenes and adventures must soon engage our attention, I shall linger just a little longer in the blue Levant before we sail away south and round the world. Ale...
11. CHAPTER XI.For nine months, if not longer, the _Gurnet_ cruised around the Cape, and along the east coast of Africa, as high up as the tropics, and as low down as Algoa Bay. She took a run...
12. CHAPTER XII.It took the _Gurnet_ a year and a half more to complete even two-thirds of her circuit, and this was in reality a voyage round the world of a far more complete nature than any o...
13. CHAPTER XIII.I think there is no more grateful man than your honest blue-jacket or marine if he receives a favour; and Paddy O'Rayne never forgot Dr. Reikie's kindness to him after that acci...
14. CHAPTER I.War, war, war! Yes; war was the cry, from Land's End to John o' Groat's. In England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, war, war, war! In the drawing-rooms of the wealthy, in the humbles...
15. CHAPTER II.As soon as it was known in Britain that the Russians had retreated from the Danube, and that their forces would in all likelihood be poured into the Crimea to reinforce that gre...
16. CHAPTER III.Every heart beat high as the order was given to advance, for it was known all along the line that the day of battle had dawned. Yes, every heart beat high; but long ere eventide...
17. CHAPTER IV.The 41st and 49th were advancing towards the eminence on which Lord Raglan and his staff were situated; while the Third Division, under General England, with six regiments and t...
18. CHAPTER V.But oh, reader mine, is it not dreadful to read that on the very night that followed the battle men were sickening and dying with cholera in numbers as great as before?
19. CHAPTER VI.The bold young hockey-player ran on and on; first as hard as he could fly, then only in a swinging sort of trot that he felt he could keep up long enough. Once or twice he lost...
20. CHAPTER VII.That question may well begin a fresh chapter. He had gone north, as I have said, to keep the communications open, and he did so most effectually. Not only did he get 12,000 troo...
21. CHAPTER VIII.Guy Fawkes had intended to blow up the Houses of Parliament, I believe--that is if my memory serves me aright. Well, reader, boys like you and me don't take much note of politic...
22. CHAPTER IX."What a morning!" said Dr. Reikie to Jack about six o'clock on the 5th. "I can't help thinking we'd just be as snug, and a wee bit snugger, on board the old _Gurnet_. We can har...
23. CHAPTER X.The _Gurnet_ had been to Varna on special duty--luckily for her--and just one day at sea on her return voyage, when early in the morning it came on to blow. It was Sturdy's watc...
24. CHAPTER XI.When Maggie Mackenzie, then barely twenty years of age, volunteered to go out to Scutari to nurse the sick and the wounded, in company with many other ladies, some young and oth...
25. CHAPTER XII.Yes, the proud and ambitious Emperor Nicholas breathed his last on the second of March 1855, and Alexander the Second reigned in his stead. I do not mean to judge the dead emper...
26. CHAPTER XIII.Brave? ah yes; give them their due. Their sufferings at this time were greater even than our own, and under our fire at least two hundred of them fell every day.
27. CHAPTER XIV.Captain Gillespie of H.M.S. _Gurnet_ was a somewhat shy man. Some sailors are. But all sailors are gallant; therefore when at Scutari, on her way home _viâ_ Malta and Gibraltar,...