Category: Historical Novels
The post-office in the middle Georgia village of Hillsborough used to be a queer little place, whatever it is now. It was fitted up in a cellar; and the postmaster, who was an enterprising gentleman from Connecticut, had arranged matters so that those who went after their lett...
For a few days Joe Maxwell forgot all about Mr. Deometari, Mr. Blandford, and Mr. Pruitt. There was distinguished company visiting the editor of The Countryman--a young lady fro...
10. CHAPTER X--THE STORY-TELLERSThe strange company was silent for a long time. Mr. Pruitt and Mr. Wimberly sat with their elbows on their knees and their faces in their hands, and gazed into the fireplace, wh...
8. CHAPTER VIII--SOMETHING ABOUT “SANDY-CLAUSHarbert's house on the Turner place was not far from the kitchen, and the kitchen itself was only a few feet removed from the big house; in fact, there was a covered passageway...
7. CHAPTER VII--OLD ZIP COONJim-Polk Gaither was very glad to go hunting with Joe Maxwell, having taken a strong boyish liking to the lad, and so one Saturday evening he came over to the Turner place with...
13. CHAPTER XIII--A NIGHT'S ADVENTURESIt was the very next afternoon that Joe Maxwell received the expected summons from Mr. Deometari. The message was brought by a negro on a mule, and the mule seemed to be very ti...
1. CHAPTER I--JOE MAXWELL MAKES A STARTThe post-office in the middle Georgia village of Hillsborough used to be a queer little place, whatever it is now. It was fitted up in a cellar; and the postmaster, who was an e...
9. CHAPTER IX--DESERTERS AND RUNAWAYSAll was peace on the plantation, but war has long arms, and it dropped its gifts of poverty and privation in many a humble home with which Joe Maxwell was familiar. War has its...
11. CHAPTER XI--THE RELIEF COMMITTEEJoe Maxwell was very tired the day after his experience in the cabin with the deserters and the runaways, but he was not too tired to joyfully accept an invitation to visit Hill...
6. CHAPTER VI--THE OWL AND THE BIRDSThe Gaither boy grew to be very friendly with Joe Maxwell, and he turned out to be a very pleasant companion. He was fifteen years old, but looked younger, and although he had n...
3. CHAPTER III--TRACKING A RUNAWAY“Kaze, soon dis mornin' whiles I wuz a-feed-in' de hogs, I seed one er dem Gaither boys cornin' down de road under whip an' spur, an' I ax 'im wharbouts he gwine, an' he say he...
5. CHAPTER V--MR. WALL'S STORY“I'm monst'us sorry. Daught ain't here,” he began, “'cause she know'd the folks thess ez well ez I did; she's been thar at the house an' seed um. It thess come inter my min' whi...
2. CHAPTER II--A PLANTATION NEWSPAPERThe printing-office was a greater revelation to Joe Maxwell than it would be to any of the youngsters who may happen to read this. It was a very small affair; the type was old a...
14. CHAPTER XIV--THE CURTAIN FALLSSomehow, after Joe Maxwell's experience with Mr. Deometari, Mr. Blandford, and the rest, events of importance seemed to follow each other more rapidly. Some of them were surpris...
4. CHAPTER IV--SHADOWS OF THE WARWhat with the books in the library and the life out of doors in the afternoons, Joe Maxwell grew very fond of his new home. His work at the printers' case was not a task, but a...