Charlie to the Rescue
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Robert Michael Ballantyne. Charlie to the Rescue
Chapter One. Introduces the Hero
Chapter Two. The Shipwreck
Chapter Three “It’s an Ill Wind that Blaws Naebody Guid.”
Chapter Four. Drifting on the Rocks
Chapter Five. All Things to All Men
Chapter Six. Disaster, Starvation, and Death
Chapter Seven. Adrift on the Sea
Chapter Eight. Ingratitude
Chapter Nine. Shank Reveals Something More of his Character
Chapter Ten. Home-coming and Unexpected Surprises
Chapter Eleven. Tells of Happy Meetings and Serious Consultations
Chapter Twelve. Changes the Scene Considerably!
Chapter Thirteen. Hunky Ben is Sorely Perplexed
Chapter Fourteen. The Haunt of the Outlaws
Chapter Fifteen. Lost and Found
Chapter Sixteen. Friends and Foes—Plots and Counterplots—The Ranch in Danger
Chapter Seventeen. The Alarm and Preparations for Defence
Chapter Eighteen. Defence of the Ranch of Roaring Bull
Chapter Nineteen. The Rescue and its Consequences
Chapter Twenty. Jake The Flint In Difficulties
Chapter Twenty One. Tells of a Cruel Deed, and Shows How Mysteriously Hunky Ben Behaved
Chapter Twenty Two
Chapter Twenty Three. The Troops Outwitted by the Scout and his Friends
Chapter Twenty Four. The Meeting of Old Friends in Curious Circumstances
Chapter Twenty Five. Shows how the Seaman was sent on a Delicate Mission and how he Fared
Chapter Twenty Six. Treats of Various Interesting Matters, and Tells of News from Home
Chapter Twenty Seven. Hunky Ben and Charlie get Beyond their Depth, and Buck Tom gets Beyond Recall
Chapter Twenty Eight. Chase, Capture, and End of Jake the Flint
Chapter Twenty Nine. They Return to the Ranch of Roaring Bull, where Something Serious Happens to Dick Darvall
Chapter Thirty. Changes the Scene Somewhat Violently, and Shows our Hero in a New Light
Chapter Thirty One. Failure and a New Scent
Chapter Thirty Two. Success and Future Plans
Chapter Thirty Three. Sweetwater Bluff
Chapter Thirty Four
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We have no intention of carrying our reader on step by step through all the adventures and deeds of Charlie Brooke. It is necessary to hasten over his boyhood, leaving untold the many battles fought, risks run, and dangers encountered.
He did not cut much of a figure at the village school—though he did his best, and was fairly successful—but in the playground he reigned supreme. At football, cricket, gymnastics, and, ultimately, at swimming, no one could come near him. This was partly owing to his great physical strength, for, as time passed by he shot upwards and outwards in a way that surprised his companions and amazed his mother, who was a distinctly little woman—a neat graceful little woman—with, like her stalwart son, a modest opinion of herself.
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“No matter,” said Brooke, whose compressed lips and flashing eyes told of deep but suppressed feelings. “There are more rockets.”
He was right. While he was speaking, another rocket was placed and fired. It was well directed, but fell short. Another, and yet another, rose and fell, but failed to reach its mark, and the remainder of the rockets refused to go off from some unknown cause—either because they had been too long in stock or had become damp.
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