Harry Milvaine: or, The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy
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Stables Gordon. Harry Milvaine: or, The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy
Book One – Chapter One. In the Land of Brown Heath. Child Harold
Book One – Chapter Two. Adventures in the Forest
Book One – Chapter Three. The Search for the Lost Ones – an Ugly Fight
Book One – Chapter Four. Harry Milvaine, Landed Proprietor – His Bungalow, and how he Built it – “I’ll be a Sailor, to be Sure.”
Book One – Chapter Five. The Story that the Swallow Told
Book One – Chapter Six. Harry’s School-Days – Lost in a Snowstorm
Book One – Chapter Seven. Leaving Home
Book Two – Chapter One. A Life on the Ocean Wave. Harry in a Queer Position
Book Two – Chapter Two. First Experiences of Life at Sea
Book Two – Chapter Three. H.M. Gunboat “Bunting” in Chase – A Dark Night’s Dismal Work
Book Two – Chapter Four. Life in a Gunboat – The Captain’s Birthday
Book Two – Chapter Five. The Surgeon’s Yarn
Book Two – Chapter Six. The Surgeon’s Yarn Continued – The Pleasant Home of a Robber chief – Face to Face with Death
Book Two – Chapter Seven. Caught Aback in a White Squall – on a Reef in Mid Ocean – The Lost Dhow
Book Three – Chapter One. Alone in the Wilderness ’Tis Justice, not Revenge
Book Three – Chapter Two. Harry is Made a Slave – The Journey Inland – Escape
Book Three – Chapter Three. A Chapter of Surprises – A Mysterious Pack, and a Mysterious Appearance
Book Three – Chapter Four. In African Wilds – Adventure with a Lion
Book Three – Chapter Five. The Return of the Caravans – Night in the Forest – The Dying Slave Boy
Book Three – Chapter Six. The Land of Depopulation – In a Beast-Haunted Wilderness – A Mystery – A Strange King
Book Three – Chapter Seven. Amazons – The Lake of the Hundred Isles – The Feast of Flowers
Book Four – Chapter One. On the War Path. Adventure with a Python – The Unwholesome Fen – The Village of the Dismal Swamp – The Man-Eater
Book Four – Chapter Two. Weary Wanderings – Prisoner in a Savage Land – The Escape by Night – Down with Fever in the Marsh
Book Four – Chapter Three. Back Again at the Hundred Isles – The King as a Nurse – Harry Tells the Story of the World – News of the “Bunting’s” Men – Preparing for the War-Path
Book Four – Chapter Four. King Kara-Kara’s Armada – The Battle on the Lake – Terrible fighting
Book Four – Chapter Five. The Battle on the Mainland – Death or Victory
Book Four – Chapter Six. The Mystery Explained – After the Battle – Death of Somali Jack
Book Four – Chapter Seven. The Fight on the Hill – Reunion – “The Greatest King in all the world” – Home Again
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At breakfast next morning young Harry was much surprised and concerned to be told that he was going to have a governess.
“A guv’niss,” he said, pausing in the act of raising a spoonful of oatmeal porridge to his mouth, “a guv’niss, papa? What’s a guv’niss? Something to eat?”
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Eily did not follow them. Truth to say, Harry had shut her up in the saddle-room.
There was much to be seen and noticed, and oceans of wild flowers to cull, and there were birds’ nests to be visited, many of which contained only eggs, while others had in them little half-naked, hairy “gorbals,” that opened such extraordinary big gaping yellow mouths, that they could have swallowed a church – that is, if the church were small enough.
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