The Dreadnought Boys on Battle Practice

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Dreadnought Boys on Battle Practice, by John Henry Goldfrap

A FEW STROKES BROUGHT HIM ALONGSIDE THE FLOAT, AND HE SCRAMBLED UP ITS WET SIDES.
BY CAPTAIN WILBUR LAWTON
NEW YORK HURST & COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1911, by HURST & COMPANY


A RED-HOT STOVE AND DESTINY.
Isn't it a dandy picture—the real thing—just as I've always imagined it. Herc!
Ned Strong wheeled from the gaudily colored lithograph he had been admiring, and turned to a red-headed youth of about his own age—almost eighteen—who stood beside him in the postoffice and general store at Lambs' Corners, a remote village in the Catskill mountains.
It's purty as a yearling colt, responded the lad addressed, examining once more, with an important air of criticism, the poster in question. The lithograph had been tacked up only the day before, but by this time half the boys in the neighboring country had examined it.