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.
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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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