. Capturing a locomotive: a history of secret service in the late war . exclaimed, Why, it is a man ! They were alarmedand cried aloud, thus announcing their discovery totheir friends on shore. The latter instantly returned,and Andrews, s^ing himself discovered, dropped fromthe tree, ran to the lower end of the island, took asmall log, with a limb for a paddle, and shoved intothe stream, hoping to reach the opposite shore beforehe coidd be overtaken. But there was another partylower down the river with a skiff, who saw him androwed out to meet him. Thus enclosed, he gave overthe hopeless strug
. Capturing a locomotive: a history of secret service in the late war . exclaimed, Why, it is a man ! They were alarmedand cried aloud, thus announcing their discovery totheir friends on shore. The latter instantly returned,and Andrews, s^ing himself discovered, dropped fromthe tree, ran to the lower end of the island, took asmall log, with a limb for a paddle, and shoved intothe stream, hoping to reach the opposite shore beforehe coidd be overtaken. But there was another partylower down the river with a skiff, who saw him androwed out to meet him. Thus enclosed, he gave overthe hopeless struggle, and surrendered to his fate,—in-evitable death ! He afterwards said that he felt a sensealmost of relief when the end had come and he knewthe worst. From the time of losing his clothing in thedrift-wood he had but little expectation of ultimate es-cape. The spectacle of a man condemned to death,starving and naked, hunted through the woods andwaters by dogs and men, is one of the most pitiablethat can be imagined. EVEET SCHOLAR SHOULD POSSESS A GOOD A NEW EDITION OF WORCESTERS UNABRIDGED QUARTO DICTIONARY Embracing 304 Additional Pages, contaiuingr 13,300 New Words and a Vo-cabulary of Synonymes of Words in General Use. FULLY ILLUSTRATED AND UNABRIDGED. With Four Full-page Illuminated Plates. Library Sheep, Marbled Edges, $ Half Russiaand Half Morocco, $ Full Russia, $ The new edition is a massive volume of 2053 pages, and contains considerably more than115,000 words in its vocabulary, with their pronunciation, definition, and ety-mology. It is illustrated with about 1100 neat woodcuts, and is enriched by more than athousand excellent articles on Synonyrues, in which five thousand synonymous words aretreated, and accurately and concisely illustrated by short and well-chosen examples. THE NEW EDITION OF V/ORCESTERS DICTIONARY Contains Thousands of Words not to I33 found in any other Dictionary. ii ^Vi7<®a?:E3El is now regarded as th
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