The lively adventures of Gavin Hamilton

by Molly Elliot Seawell

THE LIVELY ADVENTURES
OF
GAVIN HAMILTON

By

MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL

AUTHOR OF “THE ROCK OF THE LION”
“A VIRGINIA CAVALIER” ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

BY H. C. EDWARDS

NEW YORK AND LONDON
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
1900

“‘IT IS MY TURN NOW!’ SHOUTED GAVIN”

By MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL.

THE ROCK OF THE LION. Illustrated by A. I. Keller. Post 8vo, cloth, $1 50.

The book is written with much dash and spirit, as well as with painstaking accuracy.—N. Y. Times.

A VIRGINIA CAVALIER. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1 50.

A Virginia cavalier is the title under which George Washington as a youth is presented to us. Some of the incidents of his boyhood and early manhood are told in a picturesque way, and the spirit and manners of the time are well shown forth.—Atlantic Monthly.

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NEW YORK AND LONDON:
HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.

Copyright, 1899, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.

NOTE

In this story, as in all the other stories for the young written by the author, few, or no liberties have been taken with history and chronology.

Molly Elliot Seawell

ILLUSTRATIONS

ILLUSTRATED HALF-TITLE		[vii]
“‘IT IS MY TURN NOW!’ SHOUTED GAVIN”	[Frontispiece]
GAVIN THROWS AWAY HIS TROOPER’S SABRE	Facing p.	[18]
THE KING DRAGGED GAVIN OUT OF THE CLOSET	”	[46]
HE DROPPED SIR GAVIN ON TO THE FLOWER-BED FIFTEEN FEET BELOW	”	[130]
GAVIN CARRIES THE KING ACROSS THE FLOODED GARDEN	”	[184]
“TAKE CHARGE OF THE PRISONER UNTIL I SEND FOR HIM”	”	[216]

THE LIVELY
ADVENTURES OF GAVIN HAMILTON