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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892. Excerpt: ... did say it: and that Professor Wilder was the foremost man of the age. The excitement was of a quiet kind, but it ran high. At this crisis, Jack Hardy, feeling the ab "He carried the light tenderly." solute necessity of a smoke, reached forward to the table for a match, and thoughtlessly struck it on his boot. The chief heard the familiar crackle and darted like a tiger at him. "Give it to me, sir Obey at your peril " He took the burning lucifer from the astonished real-estate agent's hands, carried the light tenderly, as if it were the Kohinoor, across the floor of the car, and, while the rest watched him, transfixed at the sobering sight, he lighted the petroleum heater, and then the lamp in the Atkinson cooker. He shut the doors tightly to keep the slightest breath away from the lamps, and then handed the almost extinguished match back to Mr. Hardy. "There Light your cigar now. It is the last match used without my written instructions. Sealed in a tin box, the matches shall be carried about my person." They all drew a long breath, while Jack lighted his cigar and Eoyal applied the stinging end of the match to a cigarette. "Now," continued the sergeant, "we will take a formal ballot. We have on hand thirtyone matches and two stoves lighted, neither of which, with the care we shall bestow upon them, ought to go out for five months; we have petroleum in abundance to heat this car, and to cook as long as we shall be able to stay in it. The question is, shall we take even the slightest risk and proceed on our journey as we are, or shah1 we descend, exposing ourselves, perhaps, to ignorant ridicule and attack, and our sole source of hope and safety to possible wanton, prejudiced destruction?" He stopped for a moment, and then for the first time since they ...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217546324 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217546323 |
| Weight | 0.25 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.16 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 68 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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