Born to Wander: A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures
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Stables Gordon. Born to Wander: A Boy's Book of Nomadic Adventures
Book One – Chapter One. Grayling House, and the Wildery around it
Book One – Chapter Two. Glen Lyle
Book One – Chapter Three. Castle Beautiful
Book One – Chapter Four. Gipsy Life
Book One – Chapter Five. Strange Adventures in Wood and Wild
Book One – Chapter Six. In a Smuggler’s Cave
Book One – Chapter Seven. Life in the Lighthouse
Book One – Chapter Eight “The Wreck! The Wreck!”
Book Two – Chapter One. In Distant Lands. On Moorland and Mountain
Book Two – Chapter Two. At Sea in the “Fairy Queen.”
Book Two – Chapter Three. On the Wings of a Westerly Gale
Book Two – Chapter Four. On Silent Seas
Book Two – Chapter Five. Afloat on an Iceberg
Book Two – Chapter Six. The Far North Land
Book Two – Chapter Seven. A Saturday Night at Sea
Book Two – Chapter Eight. Captain James Continues his Story – On the Subterranean River
Book Two – Chapter Nine. Rory O’Reilly’s Queer Story
Book Two – Chapter Ten. The Wanderers’ Return
Book Three – Chapter One. Adventures in the Rocky Mountains
Book Three – Chapter Two. Fighting with Indians
Book Three – Chapter Three. Here and There in Many Climes
Book Three – Chapter Four. The Unknown Land
Book Three – Chapter Five. The Old Folks at Home
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Scene: An old-fashioned parlour in Grayling House. The walls are hung with faded tapestry, the furniture is ancient, and a great fire of logs and peat is burning on the low hearth. In front lies a noble deerhound. At one side, in a high-backed chair, sits a lady still young and beautiful. Some lacework rests on her lap, and she listens to one who sits near her reading – her husband.
Captain Lyle reading —
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“No,” replied Leonard, thoughtfully, “Joe is papa’s pike, and he mustn’t be touched.”
Leonard and Effie were the only children of their parents, who loved them very much indeed. Captain Lyle was proud of his boy, and, I fear, made almost too much of a pet of his girl Effie. He indulged them both to their hearts’ content, when they had done their duty for the day – that is, when they had both returned from the village school, for in those good old days in Scotland the upper classes were not above sending their boys and girls to the parish schools; there were of course no paupers went there, only the sons and daughters of farmers and tradespeople – when duty was over, then, Captain Lyle encouraged his children to play. Indeed, he seemed more like a big boy – a brother, for instance – than a father. He was always planning out new measures of enjoyment, and one of the best of these was what Leonard called The Miniature Menagerie.
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