Front matter
Reading edition
By
MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL
AUTHOR OF “THE ROCK OF THE LION” “A VIRGINIA CAVALIER” ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
BY H. C. EDWARDS
NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS 1900
“‘IT IS MY TURN NOW!’ SHOUTED GAVIN”
By MOLLY ELLIOT SEAWELL.
THE ROCK OF THE LION. Illustrated by A. I. Keller. Post 8vo, cloth, $1 50.
The book is written with much dash and spirit, as well as with painstaking accuracy.—N. Y. Times.
A VIRGINIA CAVALIER. Illustrated. Post 8vo, Cloth, $1 50.
A Virginia cavalier is the title under which George Washington as a youth is presented to us. Some of the incidents of his boyhood and early manhood are told in a picturesque way, and the spirit and manners of the time are well shown forth.—Atlantic Monthly.
NEW YORK AND LONDON: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS.
Copyright, 1899, by Harper & Brothers. All rights reserved.
NOTE
In this story, as in all the other stories for the young written by the author, few, or no liberties have been taken with history and chronology.
Molly Elliot Seawell
ILLUSTRATIONS
ILLUSTRATED HALF-TITLE vii
“‘IT IS MY TURN NOW!’ SHOUTED GAVIN” Frontispiece
GAVIN THROWS AWAY HIS TROOPER’S SABRE Facing p. 18
THE KING DRAGGED GAVIN OUT OF THE CLOSET ” 46
HE DROPPED SIR GAVIN ON TO THE FLOWER-BED FIFTEEN FEET BELOW ” 130
GAVIN CARRIES THE KING ACROSS THE FLOODED GARDEN ” 184
“TAKE CHARGE OF THE PRISONER UNTIL I SEND FOR HIM” ” 216
THE LIVELY ADVENTURES OF GAVIN HAMILTON