John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch

About this eBook

Author

Hill, A. F. (Ashbel Fairchild), 1842-1876

Title

John Smith's Funny Adventures on a Crutch Or The Remarkable Peregrinations of a One-legged Soldier after the War

Credits

Produced by Elizabeth Oscanyan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Disabled veterans -- United States -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

49961

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49961

Release Date

September 14, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.John Smith's Funny Adventures On A Crutch! — CHAPTER I. The Way It Happened.
2. 2.CHAPTER II. John’s Adventures with a Crazy Man.
3. 3.CHAPTER III. Proposes to Leap From a Third-Story Window.
4. 4.CHAPTER IV. Locked Up.
5. 5.CHAPTER V. Accommodated with a “Room Lower down.”
6. 6.CHAPTER VI. The Way Smith gets Bored.—An Episode.
7. 7.CHAPTER VII. John Smith’s Friend.
8. 8.CHAPTER VIII. John thought he would like to Travel.
9. 9.CHAPTER IX. Sea-Sick.—Ugh!
10. 10.CHAPTER X. The “Hub.”
11. 11.CHAPTER XI. Narrow Escape in a Row at Baltimore.
12. 12.CHAPTER XII. How Smith traveled A-Foot—and More.
13. 13.CHAPTER XIII Romance in John Smith’s “Real Life.”
14. 14.CHAPTER XIV. The Hudson.
15. 15.CHAPTER XV. John at Saratoga.
16. 16.CHAPTER XVI. The Sail Boat.
17. 17.CHAPTER XVII. Niagara Falls.
18. 18.CHAPTER XVIII. Cave of the Winds.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIX. Canada.
20. 20.CHAPTER XX. Colonel John Smith at an Hotel.
21. 21.CHAPTER XXI. Courtesies of Travelers.
22. 22.CHAPTER XXII. “ The City of Magnificent Distances. ”
23. 23.CHAPTER XXIII. Smith’s Experience on a Skate.
24. 24.CHAPTER XXIV. Over the Mountains.
25. 25.CHAPTER XXV. Difficulty with the Owner of Pittsburg.
26. 26.CHAPTER XXVI. Peculiarities of Travelers.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXVII. McCulloch’s Leap.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXVIII. Cincinnati.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIX. Falls City and Cave City.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXX. John Smith’s Absence from the Face of the Earth.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXXI. The Nightingale.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXXII. Smith’s Extraordinary Adventures in the “Mound City.”
33. 33.CHAPTER XXXIII. How Not To Open a Patent Lock.
34. 34.CHAPTER XXXIV. A Game of Checkers.
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXV. John in Chicago.
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXVI. Traveling Companions.
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXVII. Milwaukee and the Lakes.
38. 38.CHAPTER XXXVIII. Smith in search of his Uncle.
39. 39.CHAPTER XXXIX. Smith’s Knowledge of German, et cetera.
40. 40.CHAPTER XL. “A life on the ocean wave, and a home on the rolling deep.”
41. 41.CHAPTER XLI. J. Smith’s Curiosity to See a Gale more than Satisfied.
42. 42.CHAPTER XLII. More of the Dreadful Sea.
43. 43.CHAPTER XLIII John Smith’s End Imminent.
44. 44.CHAPTER XLIV. Courtesies at Sea.
45. 45.CHAPTER XLV. Ho! for California!
46. 46.CHAPTER XLVI. On the Isthmus.
47. 47.CHAPTER XLVII. The “Golden City.”
48. 48.CHAPTER XLVIII. The Doctor.
49. 49.CHAPTER XLIX. A Startling Bundle.
50. 50.CHAPTER L. Exit Smith.
51. 51.Transcriber's Notes

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