The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley
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Mitford Bertram. The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley
Chapter One. Crossing the Durban Bar
Chapter Two. Strangers in a Strange Land
Chapter Three. A Friend
Chapter Four. John Dawes, Transport-Rider
Chapter Five. Anstey’s Store
Chapter Six. Gerard is Launched
Chapter Seven. Sobuza, the Zulu
Chapter Eight. Down
Chapter Nine. Up
Chapter Ten. A Piece of Zulu Jockeying
Chapter Eleven. A New Terror
Chapter Twelve. Mutiny
Chapter Thirteen. The Igazipuza
Chapter Fourteen “The Lion’s Den.”
Chapter Fifteen “The Tooth.”
Chapter Sixteen. The Attempted Escape
Chapter Seventeen. How Dawes Fared
Chapter Eighteen. How Gerard Fared
Chapter Nineteen. Between Two Perils
Chapter Twenty. An Error of Judgment
Chapter Twenty One. The King’s “Hunting-Dogs.”
Chapter Twenty Two. The Two Emissaries
Chapter Twenty Three. The Work of “Suppression.”
Chapter Twenty Four. The Last of the Freebooters
Chapter Twenty Five. The Last of all our Friends
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“Now, young fellows. Bring along your traps this way. Got anything to declare?”
The voice proceeded from a bluff hearty individual wearing a thick grizzled beard and a brass-buttoned coat. He was standing in the doorway of the Custom-house.
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Some one at the same time handed him the dish. The tender, smoking ears of corn looked tempting enough. Harry helped himself to one, and without much thinking what he was doing, put it endways into his mouth, and took a bite. A shout of laughter went up from the men. They had been furtively watching him, on the look-out for this. Harry reddened with anger, then tried to look dignified and indifferent.
“Never mind, mister,” cried Wayne, reassuringly. “You ain’t the first by a long chalk who has to learn how to eat green mealies. Half these chaps grinning here did just the same thing at first. Why, Robertson there, alongside you, bit the mealie cob clean in half, and then said it seemed rather dry sort of forage – eh, Robertson?”
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