The Great Airship: A Tale of Adventure.
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Brereton Frederick Sadleir. The Great Airship: A Tale of Adventure.
CHAPTER I. The Fame of the Zeppelin
CHAPTER II. Andrew Provost's Resolution
CHAPTER III. Dicky Hamshaw, Midshipman
CHAPTER IV. The Great Airship
CHAPTER V. A Tour of Inspection
CHAPTER VI. Carl Reitberg, Sportsman
CHAPTER VII. En Route for Adrianople
CHAPTER VIII. The Besieged City
CHAPTER IX. Dick Hamshaw Saves the Situation
CHAPTER X. A Thrilling Rescue
CHAPTER XI. Some Facts and Figures
CHAPTER XII. Carl Aboard the Biplane
CHAPTER XIII. To the North-west Frontier
CHAPTER XIV. A Brush with Pathans
CHAPTER XV. The Great Attempt
CHAPTER XVI. Record High Flying
CHAPTER XVII. A Desperate Situation
CHAPTER XVIII. Off to New Guinea
CHAPTER XIX. Saved from the Natives
CHAPTER XX. Adolf Fruhmann's Venture
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Andrew Provost was not the man to shirk his liabilities, or to shrink from an undertaking however difficult it might appear, and however impetuous he may have been in his decision.
"No, siree," he exclaimed, sipping his after-dinner coffee, and then pulling at a big cigar. "No, my boy, I ain't the one to back out, you bet. That fellow Reitberg got my monkey up with his sneers and his crows about those German Zeppelins. Boy and man I've lived under the Union Jack, and what folks can do elsewhere, why, they can do 'em as well where I've lived. Fire in at that agreement, Joe."
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Joe laughed. "That was my experience," he said. "I dare say others meet with the same. Tantalizing, eh, Uncle?"
"Tantalizing be hanged! If that's the sort of thing that happens, then the sooner the crowd inside that office is hauled out and booted the better. Guess live men are wanted – folks who can earn their pay – not dolls and dullards. But let's leave 'em. Tell me about the ship – go on."
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