The Great Airship: A Tale of Adventure.

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On the Field of Waterloo. The Great Airship. With the Allies to the Rhine. Under French's Command. Colin the Scout. With Allenby in Palestine. A Hero of Panama. Foes of the Red Cockade. Under the Chinese Dragon. A Sturdy Young Canadian. How Canada was Won. John Bargreave's Gold. With Shield and Assegai. With Rifle and Bayonet. In the King's Service. The Dragon of Pekin. One of the Fighting Scouts. A Knight of St. John. Roger the Bold. The Rough Riders of the Pampas. Indian and Scout. The Great Aeroplane. Tom Stapleton. A Boy of the Dominion.
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There are exceptions, we suppose, to almost every rule, and this particular Friday towards the end of June was such an exception. It was fine. Not a cloud flecked the sun-lit sky. A glorious blue expanse hung over a sea almost as blue, but criss-crossed in all directions by the curling white tops of tiny wavelets, all that remained to remind one of the atrocious weather which had prevailed. For the North Sea, Europe, Great Britain, everywhere in fact, had been treated to a succession of violent gales, to a continuous deluge of rain, to bitter hail, and squalls of snow in some parts. And here and now, off the mouth of the river Elbe the sun shone, the sky was a delight, a balmy breeze fanned the cheeks of the passengers crowding the decks of the Hamburg-Amerika liner.
What a change! I began to wonder whether there was such a season as summer. Have a cigar?

Mr. Andrew Provost drew from an inner pocket of his jacket a silver-mounted case, pulled the lid off and offered one of the contents to his nephew.