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Online Full Text: |
Digital Library @ Villanova University (Motor Stories edition)
Northern Illinois University (Good News edition) Project Gutenberg (Project Gutenberg edition) |
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Series: |
Good News
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v. 11 no. 267
— page 4270 Motor Stories — no. 5 — pages 29-30 |
Alternate Title: |
A Young Marine's Peril |
Subject / Tag: |
Sketch |
Authors: |
Hale, Rufus
(Good News edition) Hall, Rufus (Motor Stories edition; Project Gutenberg edition) |
Dates: |
June 15, 1895 (Good News edition) March 27, 1909 (Motor Stories edition) October 23, 2014 (Project Gutenberg edition) |
First Sentence: |
Day after day the poisonous malarial vapors from thickets and jungles, combined with the heat of an equatorial clime, told even upon some of the hardy sailors and marines who had been sent from the sloop of war Trenton to protect a party of engineers away up in the Gaboon country of Lower Guinea, near the mountains, in Western Africa. (Motor Stories edition) Day after day, the poisonous malarial vapors from thickets and jungles, combined with the heat of an equatorial clime, told even upon some of the hardy sailors and marines who had been sent from the sloop-of-war Trenton to protect a party of engineers away up in the Gaboon county of Lower Guinea, near the mountains, in Western Africa. (Good News edition) |
Last Sentence: |
The latter, perceiving his unvarying good conduct, soon made him a corporal, from which position he eventually won his way to a higher rank. (Motor Stories edition, Good News edition) |
Known Editions
Good News edition (page 4270 in Good News, v. 11, no. 267, June 15, 1895)Motor Stories edition (pages 29-30 in Motor Stories no. 5)
Project Gutenberg edition (in Motor Stories no. 5)
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