Derrick Sterling
by Kirk Munroe
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About this eBook
- Author
- Munroe, Kirk, 1850-1930
- Title
- Derrick Sterling: A Story of the Mines
- Credits
- Produced by David Edwards, Brett Fishburne, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- Coal mines and mining -- Juvenile fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 21863
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/21863
- Release Date
- June 19, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.DERRICK STERLING — A STORY OF THE MINES
- 2.BY KIRK MUNROE — Author of " The Flamingo Feather " — ILLUSTRATED — NEW YORK AND LONDON HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS COPYRIGHT, 1888, BY HARPER & BROTHERS COPYRIGHT, 19l6, BY KIRK MUNROE — PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.ILLUSTRATIONS — [Transcriber's note: Illustrations were not available]
- 5.DERRICK STERLING: A STORY OF THE MINES
- 6.CHAPTER I — IN THE BURNING BREAKER
- 7.CHAPTER II — A FEARFUL RIDE
- 8.CHAPTER III — THE MINE BOSS TAKES DERRICK INTO HIS CONFIDENCE
- 9.CHAPTER IV — INTRODUCING HARRY, THE BUMPING-MULE
- 10.CHAPTER V — ATTACKED BY ENEMIES, AND LOST IN THE MINE
- 11.CHAPTER VI — THE SECRET MEETING—A PLUNGE DOWN AN AIR-SHAFT
- 12.CHAPTER VII — A CRIPPLE'S BRAVE DEED
- 13.CHAPTER VIII — DERRICK STERLING'S SPLENDID REVENGE
- 14.CHAPTER IX — SOCRATES, THE WISE MINE RAT
- 15.CHAPTER X — IN THE OLD WORKINGS—MISLED BY AN ALTERED LINE
- 16.CHAPTER XI — A FATAL EXPLOSION OF FIRE-DAMP
- 17.CHAPTER XII — THE MINE BOSS IN A DILEMMA
- 18.CHAPTER XIII — LADIES IN THE MINE—HARRY MULE'S SAD MISHAP
- 19.CHAPTER XIV — A LIFE IS SAVED AND DERRICK IS PROMOTED
- 20.CHAPTER XV — A "SQUEEZE" AND A FALL OF ROCK
- 21.CHAPTER XVI — BURSTING OF AN UNDERGROUND RESERVOIR
- 22.CHAPTER XVII — IMPRISONED IN THE FLOODED MINE
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII — TO THE RESCUE!—A MESSAGE FROM THE PRISONERS
- 24.CHAPTER XIX — RESTORED TO DAYLIGHT
- 25.CHAPTER XX — GOOD-BY TO THE COLLIERY
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