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Title: The Young Railroaders
Author: Francis Lovell Coombs
Narrator: Lawrence Skinner
Format: Unabridged
Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
Language: English
Release date: 12-20-17
Publisher: Audioliterature
Genres: Classics, World Literature
Publisher's Summary:
"The Young Railroaders" (1910) is a collections of "Tales of Adventure and Ingenuity" by Francis Lovell Coombs.
Excerpt:
When, after school that afternoon, Alex Ward waved a good-by to his father, the Bixton station agent for the Middle Western, and set off up the track on the spring's first fishing, he had little thought of exciting experiences ahead of him. Likewise, when two hours later a sudden heavy shower found him in the woods, with but three small fish, it was only with feelings of disappointment that he wound up his line and ran for the shelter. Scarcely had Alex reached the doorway of the deserted house when he was startled by a chorus of excited voices from the rear. He turned quickly to a window, and with a cry sprang back out of sight. Emerging from the woods, excitedly talking and gesticulating, was a party of foreigners who had been working on the track near Bixton, and in their midst, his hands bound behind him, was Hennessy, their Foreman...
Artist Bio Author: Francis Lovell Coombs was an American historian and writer, known for his biography of U. S. Grant.
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