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The Frontiersmen
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Title: The Frontiersmen
Author: Charles Egbert Craddock
Release Date: October 12, 2004 [eBook #13724]
Language: English
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THE FRONTIERSMEN
by
CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK
Author of _A Spectre of Power_, _The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains_, _In the Tennessee Mountains_, etc.
1904
CONTENTS
THE LINGUISTER
A VICTOR AT CHUNGKE
THE CAPTIVE OF THE ADA-WEHI
THE FATE OF THE CHEERA-TAGHE
THE BEWITCHED BALL-STICKS
THE VISIT OF THE TURBULENT GRANDFATHER
NOTES
THE LINGUISTER
The mental image of the world is of individual and varying compass. It may be likened to one of those curious Chinese balls of quaintly carved ivory, containing other balls, one within another, the proportions ever dwindling with each successive inclosure, yet each a more minute duplicate of the external sphere. This might seem the least world of all,--the restricted limits of the quadrangle of this primitive stockade,--but Peninnah Penelope Anne Mivane had known no other than such as this. It was large enough for her, for a fairy-like face, very fair, with golden brown hair, that seemed to have entangled the sunshine, and lustrous brown