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قراءة كتاب Jack the Hunchback: A Story of Adventure on the Coast of Maine
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Jack the Hunchback: A Story of Adventure on the Coast of Maine
JACK THE HUNCHBACK;
A STORY OF ADVENTURE ON THE
COAST OF MAINE.
Author of "The Castaways," "A Runaway Brig," "Search for the Silver City," "The Treasure Finders," "With Lafayette at Yorktown," "With Washington at Monmouth," "The Treasure of Cocos Island," "Wrecked on Spider Island," etc., etc.
NEW YORK:
A. L. BURT, PUBLISHER
Copyright, 1892,
By Bradley & Woodruff.
All rights reserved.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Adrift | 1 |
| II. | At Aunt Nancy's | 14 |
| III. | Learning to Milk | 28 |
| IV. | Louis's Adventure | 40 |
| V. | An Encounter | 52 |
| VI. | A Mental Struggle | 64 |
| VII. | Farmer Pratt | 75 |
| VIII. | A Second Warning | 88 |
| IX. | The Alarm | 99 |
| X. | Sickness | 111 |
| XI. | Gardening | 122 |
| XII. | Louis's Adventure | 137 |
| XIII. | The Sewing Circle | 152 |
| XIV. | After the Storm | 167 |
| XV. | Brother Abner | 179 |
| XVI. | A Hurried Departure | 191 |
| XVII. | Camp Meeting | 204 |
| XVIII. | A Disaster | 218 |
| XIX. | Jack's Proposition | 232 |
| XX. | Bill dean | 247 |
| XXI. | Startling Informs tion | 261 |
| XXII. | The Arrival | 273 |
JACK THE HUNCHBACK.
Chapter I.
ADRIFT.
Tom Pratt firmly believed he was the most unfortunate boy in Maine when, on a certain June morning, his father sent him to the beach for a load of seaweed.
Tom had never been in love with a farmer's life.
He fancied that in any other sphere of action he could succeed, if not better, certainly more easily, than by weeding turnips or hoeing corn on the not very productive farm.
But either planting or digging was preferable to loading a huge cart with the provokingly slippery weeds which his father insisted on gathering for compost each summer.
Therefore, when the patient oxen, after much goading and an unusual amount of noise from their impatient driver, stood knee-deep in the surf contentedly chewing their cuds and enjoying the cool footbath, Tom, instead of beginning his work,