Category: Science-Fiction & Fantasy

Redcoat Captain: A Story of That Country

And the Fort was a round wall with a barrack-square inside. And through a hole in the wall a great cannon of artillery peeped out over the country to keep Them down: for They were always supposed to be there, though nobody had ever seen Them.

Chapters

7. BOOK VII.--GOLIATH PAYS THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF

And besides he was kept on duty all day at the Castle just now, handing tea-cakes to the visitors, which he was rather good at; for St Jack's manners, when he liked, were very r...

6. BOOK VI.--THE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF PAYS FOR GOLIATH

And there the Fellows were taking down the wire netting, which they always put round the wall at dark, in case They should come on by night: for They were like a lot more, They...

2. BOOK II.--TINY MARRIES BABY

"Something for me, Cooey?" And she pulled off her gauntlets, and took the writing from under Cooey's wing, as he perched, and read it, while Cooey sidled and fluttered, till he...

3. BOOK III.--TINY AND BABY IN MOONLAND

And they got in, and Tiny leaned out, and shook hands confidentially with the nice old guard, who locked the door in return, though there was nobody else to go, only a milk-can.

5. BOOK V.--TINY AND BABY QUARREL

And after that the sparrows began. And as soon as the sparrows began, the others left off: for they knew it was no good to go on against the sparrows; for the sparrows go on for...

1. BOOK I.--TINY TAKES COSY COTTAGE

And the Fort was a round wall with a barrack-square inside. And through a hole in the wall a great cannon of artillery peeped out over the country to keep Them down: for They we...

8. BOOK VIII.--A SURPRISE-PRESENT FOR BABY

And when he had shut the door, and drawn his chair up very close, he told her in a whisper there was a Surprise-present coming for her from the King at the Castle; only she wasn...

4. BOOK IV.--TINY AND BABY GO HOME

And when they were gone, each mother sat down all day in the table in the window in the sun, and wrote round: four sheets to everybody, four hundred sheets in all.