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Title: The Young Mountaineers
Short Stories

Author: Charles Egbert Craddock

Illustrator: Malcolm Fraser

Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20365]

Language: English

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[Illustration: HE WAS PALLID AND PANTING]

THE YOUNG MOUNTAINEERS

_SHORT STORIES_

BY

CHARLES EGBERT CRADDOCK

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY MALCOLM FRASER

[Illustration]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1897

Copyright, 1897,
BY MARY N. MURFREE.

_All rights reserved_.

_The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A._
Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton and Company.

CONTENTS PAGE

THE MYSTERY OF OLD DADDY'S WINDOW 1
'WAY DOWN IN POOR VALLEY 26
A MOUNTAIN STORM 63
BORROWING A HAMMER 83
THE CONSCRIPTS' HOLLOW 103
A WARNING 172
AMONG THE CLIFFS 186
IN THE "CHINKING" 208
ON A HIGHER LEVEL 230
CHRISTMAS DAY ON OLD WINDY MOUNTAIN 245

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE

HE WAS PALLID AND PANTING (see page 221) _Frontispiece._
TOGETHER THEY WENT OVER THE CLIFF 48
HOW LONG WAS IT TO LAST 190
IN THE MIDST OF THE TORRENT 242

THE MYSTERY OF OLD DADDY'S WINDOW

Picture to yourself a wild ravine, gashing a mountain spur, and with
here and there in its course abrupt descents. One of these is so deep
and sheer that it might be called a precip