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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book:
CHAPTER III. OUTFIELD WEST. It was several moments before West
recovered his breath enough to speak, during which time he sat and
gazed at his rescuer in amazement not unmixed with curiosity. And
the rescuer looked down at "West in simple amusement. " Thanks,"
gasped West at length. " I suppose I'd have broke my silly neck if
you hadn't given me a hand just when you did." The other nodded.
"You're welcome, of course; but I don't believe you'd have been
very much hurt. What's that thing? " nodding toward the brassie,
still tightly clutched in West's hand. " A bras?a golf club. I was
knocking a ball around a bit, and it went over the cliff here." " I
should think golf was a rather funny sort of a game." " It isn't
funny at all, if you know anything about it," replied West a trifle
sharply. The rescuer was on dangerous ground, had he but known it.
" Isn't it? Well, I guess it is all in getting used to it. I don't
believe I'd care much for tumbling over cliffsthat way; I should
think it would use a fellow up after a while." " Look here,"
exclaimed West, " you saved me an ugly fall, and I'm very much
obliged, and all that; but?but you don't know the first thing about
golf, and so you had better not talk about it." He made an effort
to gain his feet, but sat down again with a groan. " You sit still
a while," said the boy in the straw hat, " and I'll drop down and
get that ball for you." Suiting the action to the word, he lowered
himself over the ledge, and slid down the bank to the beach. He
dropped the golf ball in his pocket, after examining it with deep
curiosity, and started back. But the return was less easy than the
descent had been. The bank was gravelly, and his feet could gain no
hold. Several times he struggled up a yard or so, only to slip
bac...
When the Spaniards heard of this new industry which had arisen
within the limits of their possessions they pursued the vessels of
the buccaneers wherever they were seen and relentlessly destroyed
them and their crews.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
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