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PICKETT’S GAP
BY
HOMER GREENE
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1904
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1902,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up, electrotyped, and published October, 1902. Reprinted March, 1904.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
The illustrations in this book are reproduced from the original drawings by the kind permission of The Youth’s Companion.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
CHAPTER II
CHAPTER III
CHAPTER IV
CHAPTER V
CHAPTER VI
CHAPTER VII
CHAPTER VIII
CHAPTER IX
CHAPTER X
ILLUSTRATIONS
“‘I have been to blame.’” Frontispiece Facing Page “‘This land is my gran’father’s, an’ I’ll stand where I please on it.’” 30 “‘No better deed could be done by any one than to pull their accursed stakes from the ground, and fling ’em, one and all, into the water of the brook.’” 42
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">“‘Good-by, my boy!’” 66 Signing the Contract. 82 “Abner Pickett sat upon the wall holding his gun in readiness for action.” 102 “‘What shall I do, Aunt Martha?’” 114 “‘Tell the truth, you fool!’” 132 “He held the door wide open while the old man and his grandson passed out into the corridor.” 164