The Red Eric
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Robert Michael Ballantyne. The Red Eric
Chapter One. The Tale Begins with the Engaging of a “Tail”—and the Captain Delivers his Opinions on Various Subjects
Chapter Two. Important Personages are Introduced to the Reader—The Captain makes Insane Resolutions, Fights a Battle, and Conquers
Chapter Three. The Tea-Party—Accidents and Incidents of a Minor Kind—Glynn Proctor gets into Trouble
Chapter Four. The Escape
Chapter Five. Day Dreams and Adventures among the Clouds—A Chase, a Battle, and a Victory
Chapter Six. Disagreeable Changes—Sagacious Conversations, and a Terrible Accident
Chapter Seven. The Rescue—Preparations for a Storm
Chapter Eight. The Storm, and its Results
Chapter Nine. Rambles on Shore, and Strange Things and Ceremonies Witnessed There
Chapter Ten. An Inland Journey—Sleeping in the Woods—Wild Beasts Everywhere—Sad Fate of a Gazelle
Chapter Eleven. Native Doings, and a Cruel Murder—Jim Scroggles Sees Wonders, and has a Terrible Adventure
Chapter Twelve. Jim Scroggles Rescued, and Glynn and Ailie Lost—A Capture, Upset, Chase, Escape, and Happy Return
Chapter Thirteen. Philosophical Remarks on “Life”—A Monkey Shot and a Monkey Found—Jacko Described
Chapter Fourteen. Rencontre with Slave-Traders—On Board again—A Start, a Misfortune, a Ghost Story, a Mistake, and an Invitation to Dinner
Chapter Fifteen. New Scenes—A Fight Prevented by a Whale—A Storm—Blown off the Yardarm—Wreck of the “Red Eric”
Chapter Sixteen. The Sandbank—The Wrecked Crew make the best of Bad Circumstances
Chapter Seventeen. Life on the Sandbank—Ailie takes Possession of Fairyland—Glynn and Bumble Astonish the Little Fishes
Chapter Eighteen. Matters Grow Worse and Worse—The Mutiny—Commencement of Boat-Building, and Threatening Storms
Chapter Nineteen. The Storm
Chapter Twenty. Preparations for a Long Voyage—Briant Proves that Ghosts can Drink—Jacko Astonishes his Friends, and Saddens his Adopted Mother
Chapter Twenty One. The Boat Finished—Farewell to Fairyland—Once more at Sea
Chapter Twenty Two. Reduced Allowance of Food—Jacko Teaches Briant a Useful Lesson
Chapter Twenty Three. Progress of the Long Voyage—Story-Telling and Journalising
Chapter Twenty Four. The Calm and the Storm—A Serious Loss and Great Gain—Bird-Catching Extraordinary—Saved at Last
Chapter Twenty Five. Home, Sweet Home—The Captain takes his Sisters by Surprise—A Mysterious Stranger
Chapter Twenty Six. Captain Dunning Astonishes the Stranger—Surprising News, and Desperate Resolves
Chapter Twenty Seven. The Law-Suit—The Battle, and the Victory
Chapter Twenty Eight. The Conclusion
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In the centre of the town whose name we have declined to communicate, there stood a house—a small house—so small that it might have been more appropriately, perhaps, styled a cottage. This house had a yellow-painted face, with a green door in the middle, which might have been regarded as its nose, and a window on each side thereof, which might have been considered its eyes. Its nose was, as we have said, painted green, and its eyes had green Venetian eyelids, which were half shut at the moment Captain Dunning walked up to it as if it were calmly contemplating that seaman’s general appearance.
There was a small garden in front of the house, surrounded on three sides by a low fence. Captain Dunning pushed open the little gate, walked up to the nose of the house, and hit it several severe blows with his knuckles. The result was that the nose opened, and a servant-girl appeared in the gap.
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“Yes, I did, when I was a boy; an’ that wasn’t yesterday.”
“And did you,” continued the lady in the same sepulchral tone, “did you note how that man—that beacon, if I may use the expression, set up as a warning to deter all wilful boys and men from reckless, and wicked, and wandering, and obstreperous courses—did you note, I say, how that man, that beacon, was shipwrecked, and spent a dreary existence on an uninhabited and dreadful island, in company with a low, dissolute, black, unclothed companion called Friday?”
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