A Chapter of Adventures

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Henty George Alfred. A Chapter of Adventures

CHAPTER I. A FISHING VILLAGE

CHAPTER II. CAUGHT BY THE TIDE

CHAPTER III. A RUN FROM HARWICH

CHAPTER IV. THE WRECK

CHAPTER V. THE RESCUE

CHAPTER VI. ALTERED PROSPECTS

CHAPTER VII. ON BOARD THE "WILD WAVE."

CHAPTER VIII. ALEXANDRIA

CHAPTER IX. THE RIOT IN ALEXANDRIA

CHAPTER X. PRISONERS

CHAPTER XI. THE BOMBARDMENT

CHAPTER XII. FREE

CHAPTER XIII. AMONG FRIENDS

CHAPTER XIV. A SET OF RASCALS

CHAPTER XV. A THREATENING SKY

CHAPTER XVI. OLD JOE'S YARN

CHAPTER XVII. IN DANGEROUS SEAS

CHAPTER XVIII. A CYCLONE

CHAPTER XIX. CAST ASHORE

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Jack ran home.

"I thought you would have been in by two o'clock, Jack," his mother said reproachfully, "so as to see Lily before she went off to school again."

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The boys worked away sturdily, ceasing occasionally from their labours to go down and shove the boat further off as the tide fell. At six it was dead low. They had each brought with them a bag with some bread and cheese, and a tin of cold tea, and now sat down on the gunwale of the boat for breakfast. Having finished that meal, they continued their work till nine o'clock, by which time they had got several bushels on board.

"Look there!" Joe exclaimed suddenly; "there is a big steamer has run on to the Middle Ground."

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