Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains

Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains
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Eggleston George Cary. Camp Venture: A Story of the Virginia Mountains

CHAPTER I. On the Mountain Side

CHAPTER II. A Picket Shot

CHAPTER III. The Doctor's Plans

CHAPTER IV. A New Declaration of Independence

CHAPTER V. The Building of a Cabin

CHAPTER VI. After Supper

CHAPTER VII. A "Painter"

CHAPTER VIII. The Condition of the Moonshiners

CHAPTER IX. A Sunday Discussion

CHAPTER X. Beginning Work

CHAPTER XI. An Armed Negotiation

CHAPTER XII. A Midnight Alarm

CHAPTER XIII. A Night of Searching

CHAPTER XIV. Tom Gives an Account of Himself

CHAPTER XV. Two Shots that Hit

CHAPTER XVI. The Doctor Explains

CHAPTER XVII. Christmas in Camp Venture

CHAPTER XVIII. Parole

CHAPTER XIX. A Stress of Circumstances

CHAPTER XX. In Perilous Plight

CHAPTER XXI. An Enemy to the Rescue

CHAPTER XXII. All Night Work

CHAPTER XXIII. A Loan Negotiated

CHAPTER XXIV. In the High Mountains

CHAPTER XXV. A Difficulty

CHAPTER XXVI. The Doctor's Talk

CHAPTER XXVII. Some Features of the Situation

CHAPTER XXVIII. The Capture of Camp Venture

CHAPTER XXIX. A Puzzling Situation

CHAPTER XXX. A Point of Honor

CHAPTER XXXI. Corporal Jenkins's March

CHAPTER XXXII. The Lieutenant's Wrath

CHAPTER XXXIII. A Homing Prospect

CHAPTER XXXIV. In the Hands of the Enemy

CHAPTER XXXV. The End of Camp Venture

CHAPTER XXXVI. A Start Down the Mountain

CHAPTER XXXVII. Down the Mountain

CHAPTER XXXVIII. Old King Coal

CHAPTER XXXIX. The Doctor Sings

CHAPTER XL. Tom's Journey

CHAPTER XLI. Tom's Journey

CHAPTER XLII. In the Service of the King

CHAPTER XLIII. The Camp Venture Mining Company

CHAPTER XLIV. Little Tom at the End of it All

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The three Ridsdale boys and their comrades lived in a thriving, bustling little town in one of the great valleys which divide the Virginia Mountains into ranges each having its own name. Their ages ranged from Jack's nineteen years down to Jim Chenowith's sixteen. Little Tom was so called not so much because he was rather shorter than his overgrown brothers, as because his father had been also Thomas Ridsdale and for the sake of distinguishing between them the family and the neighbors had from his infancy called the boy "Little Tom." He was next to Jack in age being now nearly eighteen years old, and as a voracious reader and a singularly keen observer he was perhaps better informed than any other boy in the party. He was not really little by any means, being five feet seven inches high and of unusually stalwart frame. From his tenth year till now he had spent his vacations mainly in hunting in these mountains. His knowledge of wood craft and of all that pertains to the chase was therefore superior even to Jack's.

The father of the Ridsdale boys had been the foremost young lawyer in the town, but he had died at a comparatively early age, leaving his widow a very scanty estate with which to bring up the three boys who were her treasures. The boys had helped from the earliest years in which they were capable of helping. They had chopped and sawed and split wood, worked in the hay fields, dropped and covered corn, pulled fodder and done what ever else there was to do that might bring a little wage to eke out the good mother's scant income. In brief they had behaved like the brave, manly, mother-loving fellows that they were, and they had grown into a sturdy strength that promised stalwart manhood to all of them.

.....

There was a laugh, for half asleep as the boys were they saw the humor of the situation and realized under what a nervous strain they had been sleeping.

"Now go to sleep again," said Tom, "and when I wake you next time breakfast will be ready."

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