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Young Mountaineers, by Charles Egbert Craddock
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Title: The Young Mountaineers Short Stories
Author: Charles Egbert Craddock
Illustrator: Malcolm Fraser
Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20365]
Language: English
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[Illustration: HE WAS PALLID AND PANTING]
THE YOUNG MOUNTAINEERS
SHORT STORIES
BY
CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY MALCOLM FRASER
[Illustration]
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1897
Copyright, 1897, BY MARY N. MURFREE.
All rights reserved.
The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.
CONTENTS PAGE
THE MYSTERY OF OLD DADDY'S WINDOW 1 'WAY DOWN IN POOR VALLEY 26 A MOUNTAIN STORM 63 BORROWING A HAMMER 83 THE CONSCRIPTS' HOLLOW 103 A WARNING 172 AMONG THE CLIFFS 186 IN THE "CHINKING" 208 ON A HIGHER LEVEL 230 CHRISTMAS DAY ON OLD WINDY MOUNTAIN 245