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Jack Hardy: A Story of English Smugglers in the Days of Napoleon

by Herbert Strang

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Excerpt from Jack A Story of English Smugglers in the Days of NapoleonThe first time Jack Hardy met Mr. Nathaniel Gudgeon was also the occasion of his first visit to Luscombe.It happened in this way."Good-by, my boy," said his father, as Jack clambered on to the roof of the coach at the White Hart, Southwark, "and be sure you don't forget your Cousin Bastable, or your mother will never forgive you.""All right, father. I'll take a look at him if I get a chance. I say, coachman, you'll let me have a drive?"About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic boo...

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