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The Young Deliverers of Pleasant Cove The Pleasant Cove Series
THE YOUNG DELIVERERS OF PLEASANT COVE.
BY ELIJAH KELLOGG,
AUTHOR OF "LION BEN OF ELM ISLAND," "CHARLIE BELL, THE WAIF OF ELM
ISLAND," "THE ARK OF ELM ISLAND," "THE BOY-FARMERS OF ELM
ISLAND," "THE YOUNG SHIP-BUILDERS OF ELM ISLAND,"
"THE HARD-SCRABBLE OF ELM ISLAND," "ARTHUR
BROWN, THE YOUNG CAPTAIN."
ILLUSTRATED.
BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
NEW YORK:
LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM,
Nos. 47 and 49 Greene Street.
1872.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871,
By LEE AND SHEPARD,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry,
19 Spring Lane.
The Pleasant Cove Series.
TO BE COMPLETED IN SIX VOLS.
1. ARTHUR BROWN, The Young Captain.
2. THE YOUNG DELIVERERS.
(Others in Preparation.)
PREFACE.
Courage to dare, fortitude to endure, enterprise to accumulate, and prudence to retain, are qualities that, however valuable in themselves, when in excess impart to character a coloring dry, hard, and even render it repulsive. But if beneath the exuberance of young life we detect the germs of those sympathies that, travelling beyond the limits of self, recognizing the common bond that links all humanity, holds fellowship with the joys and sorrows of others; that true nobility of soul, not derived from without, but existing within, and ennobling whatever it touches,—it is then that youth becomes most attractive, its efforts win sympathy, its example is contagious. With ability to accumulate, pluck to dare, and under the influence of the principles referred to, these young deliverers consecrate themselves to a high purpose, encounter peril and fatigue to break the fetters of their humble friend, and restore him to his country and friends.
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | ||
| CHAPTER I. | The Oven. | 9 |
| CHAPTER II. | Ned proposes to improve the Divine Plan. | 23 |
| CHAPTER III. | The Boys conscious of Higher Aims. | 38 |
| CHAPTER IV. | Gabriel Quesnard. | 50 |
| CHAPTER V. | The Yankee Boys' Holiday in Provence. | 67 |
| CHAPTER VI. | The Power of Association. | 83 |
| CHAPTER VII. | Yankee Ingenuity among the Peasants. | 105 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | The Last Day with the Peasants. | 130 |
| CHAPTER IX. | The Mistral. | 142 |
| CHAPTER X. | The Infernal. | 164 |
| CHAPTER XI. | A Startling Disclosure. | 182 |
| CHAPTER XII. | The Noble Volunteers. | 208 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | Captain Rhines and Dick Cameron. | 222 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | Walter and Henri Lemaire. | 238 |
| CHAPTER XV. | Vauclin. | 259 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | "O, Massa, Buckra Calker!" | 283 |
| CHAPTER XVII. | Delivered. | 298 |
THE YOUNG DELIVERERS
OF
PLEASANT COVE.
CHAPTER I.
THE OVEN.
In courtesy to those who have not read the preceding volume of this series, it is proper to observe that Arthur Brown, the principal character of it, is a young man, twenty-one years of age, rescued, in circumstances of peculiar peril, by Captain Rhines, who (in the discharge of obligations incurred to the young man's father), together with others, puts him in command of the brigantine "Arthur Brown," named for the young man's father, who perished at sea.
The vessel, built by Charlie Bell at Pleasant Cove, modelled for speed, with a numerous