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Eggleston, Edward, 1837-1902 [1874], The circuit rider: a tale of the heroic age. (J. B. Ford & Company, New York) [word count] [eaf554T]. To look up a word in a dictionary, select the word with your mouse and press 'd' on your keyboard.
Circuit Rider: A Tale of the Heroic Age. “The voice of one crying in the wilderness.” “—Beginners of a better time, And glorying in their vows.” 1874.
THE BRAVE AND SELF-SACRIFICING MEN WITH WHOM I HAD THE
CHAPTER PAGE I. —The Corn Shucking II. —The Frolic III. —Going to Meeting IV. —A Battle V. —A Crisis VI. —The Fall Hunt VII. —Treeing a Preacher VIII. —A Lesson in Syntax IX. —The Coming of the Circuit Rider X. —Patty in the Spring-House XI. —The Voice in the Wilderness XII. —Mr. Brady Prophesies XIII. —Two to One XIV. —Kike's Sermon XV. —Morton's Retreat XVI. —Short Shrift XVII. —Deliverance XVIII. —The Prodigal Returns
XIX. —Patty XX. —The Conference at Hickory Ridge XXI. —Convalescence XXII. —The Decision XXIII. —Russell Bigelow's Sermon XXIV. —Drawing the Latch-string in XXV. —Ann Eliza XXVI. —Engagement XXVII. —The Camp-Meeting XXVIII. —Patty and her Patient XXIX. —Patty's Journey XXX. —The Schoolmaster and the Widow XXXI. —Kike XXXII. —Pinkey's Discovery XXXIII. —The Alabaster Box Broken XXXIV. —The Brother XXXV. —Pinkey and Ann Eliza XXXVI. —Getting the Answer
1. —Spinning-wheel and Rifle Frontispiece PAGE 2. —Captain Lumsden 3. —Mort Goodwin 4. —Homely S'manthy 5. —Patty and Jemima 6. —Little Gabe's Discomfiture 7. —In the Stable 8. —Mort, Dolly and Kike 9. —Good Bye! 10. —The Altercation 11. —The Irish Schoolmaster 12. —Electioneering 13. —Patty in her Chamber 14. —Colonel Wheeler's Dooryard 15. —Patty in the Spring-House 16. —Job Goodwin 17. —Two to One 18. —Gambling
19. —A Last Hope 20. —The Choice 21. —Going to Conference 22. —Convalescence 23. —The Connecticut Peddler 24. —Ann Eliza 25. —Facing a Mob 26. —“Hair-hung and Breeze-shaken” 27. —The School-teacher of Hickory Ridge 28. —The Reunion 29. —The Brothers 30. —An Accusing Memory 31. —At the Spring-House Again
WHATEVER is incredible in this story is true. The tale I have to tell will seem strange to Living, in early boyhood, on the very ground where
In a true picture of this life neither the Indian nor It is not possible to write of this heroic race of men
Much as I have laughed at every sort of grotesquerie, Doubtless I shall hopelessly damage myself with * “The Circuit Rider” originally appeared as a serial in
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