. Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature ... . TRAGIC EXPERIENCE WITH AN A NARROW ESCAPE. g\ fell upon it and crushed it so deeply into the groundthat it was completely hidden from view. Many monthsafterwards, some boys digging for fish-bait found thehat buried there, and returned to the village witha tale of some possible and unknown murder, com-mitted when or by whom no one could tell. As for the boy himself, he escaped with only ascratch or two and a few bruises, but that he escapedwith his life or with sound limbs was almost a miracle
. Sword and pen : or, Ventures and adventures of Willard Glazier in war and literature ... . TRAGIC EXPERIENCE WITH AN A NARROW ESCAPE. g\ fell upon it and crushed it so deeply into the groundthat it was completely hidden from view. Many monthsafterwards, some boys digging for fish-bait found thehat buried there, and returned to the village witha tale of some possible and unknown murder, com-mitted when or by whom no one could tell. As for the boy himself, he escaped with only ascratch or two and a few bruises, but that he escapedwith his life or with sound limbs was almost a miracle;and, as his big-hearted uncle picked him up, he huggedthe lad as one snatched from the very jaws of was somewhat awed by the narrowness of hisescape, and it was observed that his face wore an ex-pression a shade graver than was its wont for severaldays after the occurrence. The lesson, however, made no lasting a week had gone by ere his life was once moreimperilled, and this time the danger resulted from hisown reckless over-confidence in himself. It is a singular fact in the boys history t
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