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No Man's Island

By Herbert Strang

2019-03-18 22:18:51

"[...]transfer their equipment to the shore. Besides their tent, they had a Primus stove, a kettle, a couple of saucepans, pots, cups and plates of enamel, pewter forks and, stainless knives, cases of provisions, three sleeping-bags, three folding st ... Read more
"[...]transfer their equipment to the shore. Besides their tent, they had a Primus stove, a kettle, a couple of saucepans, pots, cups and plates of enamel, pewter forks and, stainless knives, cases of provisions, three sleeping-bags, three folding stools, and other oddments. While Warrender and Armstrong were stretching and pegging out the tent, Pratt started the stove, filled the kettle from the river, and assembled such utensils as they needed for their tea. These operations were punctuated by renewed sounds of shooting, which were drawing nearer through the woods that skirted the clearing. "I say, you chaps," cried Pratt, "I wonder if I talked nicely, if I could coax out of them something gamey for supper to-night?" "Wouldn't you like to sing for your supper, like little Tommy Tucker?" said Armstron Less

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File size2175.373 KB
Print pages205
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781506020983
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Herbert Strang
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'Herbert Strang' was a pseudonym used by George Herbert Ely (1866–1958) and Charles James L'Estrange (1867–1947), co-editors in the Juveniles Department of Oxford University Press from 1907 until ...

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