Terry's Trials and Triumphs

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Oxley James Macdonald. Terry's Trials and Triumphs

CHAPTER I. A POOR START

CHAPTER II. THE WAY OPENS

CHAPTER III. UNEVEN GOING

CHAPTER IV. PERILS BY THE WAY

CHAPTER V. ON BOARD THE "MINNESOTA."

CHAPTER VI. IN HAMPTON ROADS

CHAPTER VII. THE GREAT NAVAL COMBAT

CHAPTER VIII. ADVENTURES ASHORE

CHAPTER IX. FROM FRIEND TO FRIEND

CHAPTER X. REINSTATED

CHAPTER XI. IN A STRAIT BETWIXT TWO

CHAPTER XII. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

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The seed thus sown by Miss Drummond began to take root at once. Terry now gave more thought to getting a chance to make a start in life than he did to having a good time. And here, as it happened, fortune favoured him in a most unusual way. On the Saturday morning of the week after the talk which had set him thinking, he was sitting at the end of the Long Wharf watching a big steamer making her way slowly up the harbour. It being the noon hour, the wharf hands were all away at dinner, and the place was almost deserted.

Suddenly he was startled out of his reverie by the sound of hoofs beating with alarming rapidity upon the resounding planks, and turning round he saw what caused him to spring to his feet with every nerve and muscle athrill. Thundering down the wharf in blind and reckless flight came Miss Drummond's pony, while in the carriage behind sat the owner, tugging desperately upon the reins, her face white and set with terror.

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He managed, however, to get out something that more closely approached praise than anything Terry had ever heard from his lips before, and this delighted the boy so that he had to execute a few steps of his favourite clog dance to relieve his feelings. Then, bethinking himself that he had stayed long enough inside his uncomfortably wet clothing, he raced up the wharf, and made for his home in Blind Alley.

Here his mother received him with a shower of questions, in the answering of which he found rare delight.

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