Derrick Sterling: A Story of the Mines
by Kirk Munroe
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"Fire! Fire in the breaker! Oh, the boys! the poor boys! These cries, and many like them - wild, heartrending, and full of fear - were heard on all sides. They served to empty the houses, and the one street of the little mining village of Raven Brook was quickly filled with excited people. It was late in the afternoon of a hot summer's day, and the white-faced miner's of the night shift were just leaving their homes. Some of them, with lunch-pails and water-cans slung over their shoulders by light iron chains, were gathered about the mouth of the slope, prepared to descend into the dark underg...
Chapters (47)
- DERRICK STERLING
- A STORY OF THE MINES
- Author of "The Flamingo Feather" ILLUSTRATED
- NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT, 1888, BY HARPER & BROTHERS COPYRIGHT, 19l6, BY KIRK MUNROE PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- DERRICK STERLING: A STORY OF THE MINES
- CHAPTER I
- IN THE BURNING BREAKER
- CHAPTER II
- A FEARFUL RIDE
- CHAPTER III
- THE MINE BOSS TAKES DERRICK INTO HIS CONFIDENCE
- CHAPTER IV
- INTRODUCING HARRY, THE BUMPING-MULE
- CHAPTER V
- ATTACKED BY ENEMIES, AND LOST IN THE MINE
- CHAPTER VI
- THE SECRET MEETING—A PLUNGE DOWN AN AIR-SHAFT
- CHAPTER VII
- A CRIPPLE'S BRAVE DEED
- CHAPTER VIII
- DERRICK STERLING'S SPLENDID REVENGE
- CHAPTER IX
- SOCRATES, THE WISE MINE RAT
- CHAPTER X
- IN THE OLD WORKINGS—MISLED BY AN ALTERED LINE
- CHAPTER XI
- A FATAL EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DAMP
- CHAPTER XII
- THE MINE BOSS IN A DILEMMA
- CHAPTER XIII
- LADIES IN THE MINE—HARRY MULE'S SAD MISHAP
- CHAPTER XIV
- A LIFE IS SAVED AND DERRICK IS PROMOTED
- CHAPTER XV
- A "SQUEEZE" AND A FALL OF ROCK
- CHAPTER XVI
- BURSTING OF AN UNDERGROUND RESERVOIR
- CHAPTER XVII
- IMPRISONED IN THE FLOODED MINE
- CHAPTER XVIII
- TO THE RESCUE!—A MESSAGE FROM THE PRISONERS
- CHAPTER XIX
- RESTORED TO DAYLIGHT
- CHAPTER XX
- GOOD-BY TO THE COLLIERY
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