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Title: A War-Time Wooing
A Story

Author: Charles King

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Language: English

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A WAR-TIME WOOING

A Story

by

CAPTAIN CHARLES KING, U. S. A.

Illustrated

New York
Harper & Brothers, Franklin Square
Copyright, 1888, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.

[Illustration: "_Colonel Putnam raises to the light of the first lantern
a hairy, bushy object._"--[See p. 50.]]

ILLUSTRATIONS.

"COLONEL PUTNAM RAISES TO THE LIGHT OF
THE FIRST LANTERN A HAIRY, BUSHY
OBJECT" _Frontispiece_

"THE VIRGINIANS KNEW A BRAVE MAN WHEN
THEY SAW ONE" _Facing page_ 8

"THE WHOLE TROOP IS HURRIEDLY SADDLING" " 70

"THEN BATHES, WITH COLOGNE, THE WHITE
TEMPLES AND SOFT, RIPPLING, SUNNY
HAIR" " 90

"BACK COME THOSE DAREDEVILS OF STUART'S" " 110

"A CAVALRY ORDERLY MAKES HIS APPEARANCE
AT THE DOOR" " 136

"THEN A