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Title: The Red Cross Girl

Author: Richard Harding Davis

Commentator: Gouverneur Morris

Posting Date: November 6, 2008 [EBook #1733]
Release Date: May, 1999

Language: English

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THE RED CROSS GIRL

The Novels And Stories Of Richard Harding Davis

By Richard Harding Davis

With An Introduction By Gouverneur Morris

CONTENTS:

Introduction by Gouverneur Morris

1. THE RED CROSS GIRL

2. THE GRAND CROSS OF THE CRESCENT

3. THE INVASION OF ENGLAND

4. BLOOD WILL TELL

5. THE SAILORMAN

6. THE MIND READER

7. THE NAKED MAN

8. THE BOY WHO CRIED WOLF

9. THE CARD-SHARP

INTRODUCTION

R. H. D.

"And they rise to their feet as he passes, gentlemen
unafraid."

He was almost too good to be true. In addition, the gods loved him, and
so he had to die young. Some people think that a man of fifty-two is
middle-aged. But if R. H. D. had lived to be a hundred, he would never
have grown old. It is not generally known that the name of his other
brother was Peter Pan.

Within the year we have played at pirates together, at the taking of
sperm whales; and we have ransacked the Westchester Hills for gunsites
against the Mexican invasion. And we have made lists of guns, and
medicines, and tinned things, in case we should ever happen to go
elephant shooting in Africa. But we weren't going to hurt the elephants.
Once R. H. D. shot a hippopotamus and he was always ashamed and sorry. I
think he never killed anything else. He wasn't that kind of a sportsman.
Of hunting, as of many other things, he has said the last word. Do you
remember the Happy Hunting Ground in "The Bar Sinister"?--"Where nobody
hunts us, and there is nothing to hunt."

Experienced persons tell us that a man-hunt is the most exciting of all
sports. R. H. D. hunted men in Cuba. He hunted for wounded men who were
out in front of the trenches and still under fire, and found some of