The Ledge on Bald Face
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Excerpt fromThe Ledge on Bald Face:Hat one stark naked Side of the mountain which gave it its name Of Old Bald Face fronted full south. Scorched by sun and scourged by storm throughout the centuries, it was bleached to an ashen pallor that gleamed startlingly across the leagues of sombre, green-purple wilderness outspread below. From the base of the tremendous bald steep stretched off the interminable leagues of cedar swamp, only to be traversed in dry weather or in frost. All the region behind the mountain face was an impenetrable jumble of gorges, pinnacles, and Chasms, with black woods clin...
Chapters (40)(click to expand)
- "The great dog shook his victim as a terrier shakes a rat." (Page 253.)
- "The great dog shook his victim like a terrier shakes a rat" . . . Frontispiece "He was thrown off his balance and shouldered clean over the brink" "Then he spread his wings wide and let go" "He flung his arms about Jim's shaggy neck and buried his face in the wet fur" "'You keep right back, boys,' commanded the Deputy in a voice of steel" "The door was flung open, and Black Dan with his hands held up, stalked forth into the moonlight" "He drew a long knife ... and slipped behind the canoe" "In the meantime, Jim, travelling at a speed that the fugitive could not hope to rival, had come to the right spot"
- I THE LEDGE ON BALD FACE
- The Ledge on Bald Face
- "He was thrown off his balance and shouldered clean over the brink."
- II THE EAGLE
- The Eagle
- "Then he spread his wings wide and let go."
- III COCK-CROW
- Cock-Crow
- IV THE MORNING OF THE SILVER FROST
- The Morning of the Silver Frost
- V JIM, THE BACKWOODS POLICE DOG
- How Woolly Billy Came to Brine's Rip
- I
- II
- III
- "He flung his arms about Jim's shaggy neck and buried his face in the wet fur."
- II. The Book Agent and the Buckskin Belt
- I
- II
- III
- "'You keep right back, boys,' commanded the Deputy in a voice of steel."
- III. The Hole in the Tree
- I
- II
- III
- IV. The Trail of the Bear
- I
- II
- "The door was flung open, and Black Dan, with his hands held up, stalked forth into the moonlight."
- V. The Fire at Brine's Rip Mills
- I
- II
- III
- "He drew a long knife ... and slipped behind the canoe."
- VI. The Man with the Dancing Bear
- I
- II
- "In the meantime, Jim, travelling at a speed that the fugitive could not hope to rival, had come to the right spot."
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