By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781515206644)

"Now, Hargate, what a fellow you are I've been looking for you everywhere. Don't you know it's the House against the Town boys. It's lucky that the Town have got the first innings; they began a quarter of an hour ago." "How tiresome " Frank Hargate said. "I was watching a most interesting thing here. Don't you see this little chaffinch nest in the bush, with a newly hatched brood. There was a small black snake threatening the nest, and the mother was defending it with quivering wings and open beak. I never saw a prettier thing. I sat quite still and neither of them seemed to notice me. Of course I should have interfered if I had seen the snake getting the best of it. When you came running up like a cart horse, the snake glided away in the grass, and the bird flew off. Oh, dear I am sorry. I had forgotten all about the match."

Author: G. a. Henty
ISBN-10: 1515206645
ISBN-13: 9781515206644
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 07/23/2015
Pages: 140
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.30d