Strange Stories from History for Young People
                        
                     
                                                         
                
                    Strange Stories from History for Young People
                                            
                            By  George Cary Eggleston
                            
                                24 Oct, 2018                            
                            
                         
                                        
                                                                        In calling the tales in this volume Strange Stories I have sought simply to indicate that, in the main, they are unfamiliar to youthful readers, and that most of them relate deeds and occurrences some what out of the common. In choosing the themes I 
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                                                In calling the tales in this volume Strange Stories I have sought simply to indicate that, in the main, they are unfamiliar to youthful readers, and that most of them relate deeds and occurrences some what out of the common. In choosing the themes I have tried to avoid the tales that have been often used, and to tell only those of which young readers generally have not before heard. Less