The Boy Patriot
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The touching tale of an unexpected friendship in the face of overwhelming odds Blair Robertson has a powerful He is a great talker. When he speaks, other kids listen. And he really loves to speak. One of his favorite subjects is his native land, the new United States of America. When Hal, a British orphan, passes by Blair and his friends, Blair yells, “Down with the British!” and compels his friends to toss poor Hal off the dock and into the water. Little to Blair’s knowledge, Hal doesn’t know how to swim. Set in Fairport, Maine, at the outbreak of the War of 1812, The Boy Patriot foll...
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- E-text prepared by Taavi Kalju, Janet Blenkinship, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from digital material generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana)
- THE BOY PATRIOT.
- EDWARD SYLVESTER ELLIS
- CHAPTER I.
- FAIRPORT.
- CHAPTER II.
- THE YOUNG ORATOR.
- CHAPTER III.
- THE ENGLISH BOY.
- CHAPTER IV.
- THE PATRIOT'S WORK.
- CHAPTER V.
- BLAIR'S COMPANY.
- CHAPTER VI.
- A PILOT.
- CHAPTER VII.
- NO!
- CHAPTER VIII.
- THE STORM.
- CHAPTER IX.
- A REWARD.
- CHAPTER X.
- A NEW DECK.
- CHAPTER XI.
- "MUM."
- CHAPTER XII.
- THE FIRST EFFORT.
- CHAPTER XIII.
- TEMPTATION.
- CHAPTER XIV.
- DERRY DUCK.
- CHAPTER XV.
- A LETTER.
- CHAPTER XVI.
- A MARVEL.
- CHAPTER XVII.
- THE CONFLICT.
- CHAPTER XVIII.
- WAGES.
- CHAPTER XIX.
- HOME.
- CHAPTER XX.
- SACRED JOY.
- CHAPTER XXI.
- CONCLUSION.
- ILLUSTRATED VOLUMES
- FOR
- CHILDREN AND YOUTH.
- FLOWERS OF SPRING-TIME.
- Songs for the Little Ones at Home.
- Dr. Scudder's Tales about the Heathen.
- THE ILLUSTRATED TRACT PRIMER.
- LETTERS TO LITTLE CHILDREN. 15 cts., or 20 gilt. GREAT TRUTHS IN SIMPLE WORDS FOR LITTLE CHILDREN. 15 cts., or 20 gilt. PEET'S SCRIPTURE LESSONS. Twenty-seven cuts. 15 cts., or 20 gilt. THE INFANT'S PRIMER. 5 cts. THE CHILD'S PRIMER. 3 cts. PICTURE ALPHABET, in colors. 5 cts.
- Books for Children, neatly Illustrated.
- SQUARE SIZE.
- First Footsteps in the Way of Knowledge.
- CHILD'S HISTORY OF THE APOSTLE PAUL.
- SKETCHES FROM THE HISTORY OF JERICHO.
- Strangers in Greenland.
- BETHLEHEM AND HER CHILDREN.
- THE MORNING STAR,
- EASY LESSONS FOR THE LITTLE ONES AT HOME.
- "THAT SWEET STORY OF OLD;"
- Joseph and his Brethren.
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