Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
SOMEWHERE between Wakefield and Doncaster, but much nearer Wakefield, there is a little village called Burdeck, which even in these days of progress is but a small place, and of no importance in any way. But in the days of which I am about to tell you something, it was so utte...
SOMEWHERE between Wakefield and Doncaster, but much nearer Wakefield, there is a little village called Burdeck, which even in these days of progress is but a small place, and of...
2. CHAPTER II.ADDERLEY came home late that night, and found his wife waiting for him, with a pint of beer warming on the hob, and a "bite" of bread-and-cheese on the table, ready for him.
3. CHAPTER III.Not determining to run away, that was already a settled thing. That very night should see him on his way. But not to Hull. Reflecting over what had passed between himself and ol...
4. CHAPTER IV.FOUR years have passed since Tom Adderley began his new career. He has made four voyages with Captain Collins, and has risen from being ship's boy to being coxswain of the capta...
5. CHAPTER V.TOM Adderley, for the first time in his life, had been forced to do what he did not like. One way or another, he had generally had his own way at home, and since he had gone to...
6. CHAPTER VI.OLD Gideon Terlizzeck, as the men all called him, was not really an old man; he did not know his age exactly himself, so that I cannot be expected to do so. There could hardly b...
7. CHAPTER VII."IF you please, Captain Egerton, may I say a few words to you, private?" said Gideon Terlizzeck to the captain, who was standing by the side, gazing down into the dark blue water.
8. CHAPTER VIII.YOU may be sure that both officers and men kept a bright look-out for the opening of the door of the captain's cabin. It was surprising how many of the officers found themselves...
9. CHAPTER IX.SPACE, or rather the want of it, forbids me to give you any more of Tom's adventures in the West Indies. Suffice it to say that he laid up materials enough for the entertainment...
10. CHAPTER X.THE "Juno" was back in Plymouth in less than two years. And when Tom and Gideon were paid off, Tom was in a fever of anxiety to see Robins and hear how his venture had prospered...
11. CHAPTER XI.AT six o'clock Gideon "knocked off" work, Tom having pulled off his jacket and handled a spade in fine style ever since dinner. In fact, he was able to teach Gideon a thing or t...
12. CHAPTER XII.AT an early hour of the next day, a young man in sailor's garb might have been seen in the streets of Wakefield, asking the way to the workhouse, but he lost his way so often, i...