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Title: A Little Union Scout

Author: Joel Chandler Harris

Illustrator: George Gibbs

Release Date: December 15, 2007 [EBook #23871]

Language: English

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[Illustration: A LITTLE UNION SCOUT
By JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS]

[Illustration: I drank in the melody with a new sense of its wild and
melancholy beauty (_Page 56_)]

A LITTLE UNION SCOUT

By

JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS

AUTHOR OF GABRIEL TOLLIVER,
THE MAKING OF A STATESMAN
AND WALLY WANDEROON

_Illustrated by George Gibbs_

NEW YORK
McCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO.
MCMIV

_Copyright, 1904, by_
JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS

Published, April, 1904

Copyright, 1904, by The Curtis Publishing Company

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

I drank in the melody with a new sense of its wild
and melancholy beauty _Frontispiece_

Facing page

"He's tryin' to git away!" yelled Forrest in a voice
that could be heard all over the field 10

"I want you to catch this fellow and fetch him to me" 38

Whistling Jim ran into him head down like a bull 64

I was wild with remorse and grief 96

"If hate could kill you, you would fall dead from this horse" 110

The leader ... had an evil-looking eye 138

He had me covered 156

A LITTLE UNION SCOUT

I

A young lady, just returned from college, was making a still-hunt in
the house for old things--old furniture, old china, and old books. She
had a craze for the antique, and the older things were the more
precious they were in her eyes. Among other things she found an old
scrap-book that her mother and I thoug