Category: Historical Novels
Terry's Trials and Triumphs
"Give it to him, Terry--that's the style!" "Punch his head!" "Hit him in the face, Mike!" "Good for you, Terry--that was a daisy!" "Stick to him, me hearty; ye'll lick him yet!"
Category: Historical Novels
"Give it to him, Terry--that's the style!" "Punch his head!" "Hit him in the face, Mike!" "Good for you, Terry--that was a daisy!" "Stick to him, me hearty; ye'll lick him yet!"
Mr. Hobart was not the only friend Terry had among the employes at Drummond and Brown's. The storeman, John Connors, had always been kind to him in his own rough way. He pitied...
5. CHAPTER V.When the crash came, Terry was standing at the stern, a little in front of Captain Afleck, who held the wheel. The shock hurled him to the deck; but he instantly leaped to his f...
4. CHAPTER IV.By the end of his first month of service Terry had become somewhat accustomed to the novelties of his position, and bid fair to prove a useful acquisition to the staff. His inti...
6. CHAPTER VI.To make entirely clear the position of the _Minnesota_ at this point, some words of explanation are necessary here. The American Civil War was raging hotly, with the advantage i...
2. CHAPTER II.The seed thus sown by Miss Drummond began to take root at once. Terry now gave more thought to getting a chance to make a start in life than he did to having a good time. And he...
9. CHAPTER IX.Terry's face when he heard Captain Afleck's startling news was verily a study. The joy which the moment before had irradiated it vanished like a flash, and in its place came a l...
11. CHAPTER XI.Amid the anxious bustle that filled the office Terry sat at his desk with strange and perplexing thoughts coursing through his brain. He had seen the bag just for one moment as...
10. CHAPTER X.The gentleman whom Terry had thus startlingly accosted looked with surprised inquiry for a moment upon the boy; then a bright smile of joyful recognition breaking over his face,...
8. CHAPTER VIII.For some minutes the _Minnesota's_ men were kept in harrowing uncertainty as the _Merrimac_ hung off to mid-stream, apparently undecided as to what to do next. Then, to their un...
7. CHAPTER VII."Oh, whirra! whirra!" he burst forth, dancing from one foot to the other, and swinging his arms about in the extremity of his excitement, "the murderin' thing is coming right fo...
3. CHAPTER III.It was with a queer jumble of feelings palpitating in his young bosom that Terry, attired as never before in his life, set out for Long Wharf on Monday morning. Blind Alley seem...
1. CHAPTER I."Give it to him, Terry--that's the style!" "Punch his head!" "Hit him in the face, Mike!" "Good for you, Terry--that was a daisy!" "Stick to him, me hearty; ye'll lick him yet!"