Excerpt: ...shore. Then Stubbs broke open the boxes and made his final speech to the men who in a way he was now placing without his authority. "Afore I gives you these," he began, "I wants to remind yer of the little talk we had t' other night. Each man of yer gits fifty cartridges and with them either he makes Bogova er Hell. There ain't no other stoppin' places. Ye may have thought, some of ye, that once yer rifles was loaded ye could do 'bout as ye pleased. But t'ain't so. Jus' behin' you there'll march one hundred men ...
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Excerpt: ...shore. Then Stubbs broke open the boxes and made his final speech to the men who in a way he was now placing without his authority. "Afore I gives you these," he began, "I wants to remind yer of the little talk we had t' other night. Each man of yer gits fifty cartridges and with them either he makes Bogova er Hell. There ain't no other stoppin' places. Ye may have thought, some of ye, that once yer rifles was loaded ye could do 'bout as ye pleased. But t'ain't so. Jus' behin' you there'll march one hundred men from the hills. They don't know much, but they obey orders, an' their orders is to shoot anybody what ain't goin' our way. Ye've got a chance, marchin' straight on an' takin' the city; ye ain't gut the ghost of a chance, if ye don't take the city er if ye fergits the way and starts back towards the ship. 'Nother thing; hold tergether. It ain't pleasant fer a man caught by hisself in Bogova. Thet's all, gents, an' I hopes it will be my pleasant duty to hand ye soon a five-dollar gold piece fer everyone of these here things I now hands ye." Wilson suppressed a shout, and soon there was the confused clicking of the locks as they closed over the full chambers of the rifles. It was music to the ears of Danbury, who from the moment his feet had touched shore was impatient to take the road without further delay. Wilson was just as bad, if not worse, 179 which left Stubbs really the only man of them all able to think calmly and somewhat rationally. He formed the men into columns of two, hastily inspected each one of them, and finally got them started with Danbury and the guide leading, Wilson, on the right side, and himself on the left and well to the rear where he could watch for possible desertions until the hill men took their place behind them. It was a new world for them all; the...
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Harrison Fisher and Charles M. Relyea. Good. pp.354 clean copy spine gutter beside title page broken but pages intact former owner name on frontpiece blue cloth covers gold gilt lettering show top/bottom spine bumped with small tears and rubbing, same to corners slight rubbing to edges Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall.
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Harrison Fisher & Charles M. Relyea. Very Good. No Jacket. 12 vo. blue pictorial cover, 4 plates include color frontis and 3 black & white; 354 clean, unmarked pages.
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Good. First edition. Contemporary owner's name on front pastedown, top corner chipped on front fly, light stain on page foredges, edges worn, title on spine worn off, thus good only, lacking the dustwrapper.