Humphrey Bold: A Story of the Time of Benbow (Classic Reprint)

CHAPTER I
THE WYLE "COP
'Tis said tliat as a man declines towards old age. his
mind dweI1s ever more and more on the events of his
childhood. Whether that be true of all men or not, cer~
tain it is that my nlemory of things that happened fifty
years ago is very clear and bright, and the little incidents
of my boyhood are more to me, because they touch me
more near1y, than such great matters as the late rebellion
against His 11ajesty King George, whom God preserve.
Especial1y docs my thought run back to a day, fifty-six
years ago this very summer, wh'en by mere chance, as it
would appear to men's eyes, my fortunes became linked
with those of Joe Punchard, who is now at this moment,
I warrant, smoking his pipe in the lodge at my park
gates. I was eleven years old, a thin slip of a boy, small
for my age, and giving no promise, to be sure, of my
present stature and girth. The neighbors shook their
heads sometimes as they looked at me, and wondered why
Ivfr. John Elle

Table of Contents

CHAJ'TaR rAGa; 1 Tuft VVLE Cor • • I; II JOE BREAKS HIS INDENTURES • 13; lIi I MEET THE MOHOCKS 23; IV UP"fAIN JOHN BENBOW • • • 35; V I LOSE My BEST FRIEND 43; VI I T AKB ARTICLES So; VII A CROWN-PIECE S9; vln 1 FALL AMONG THIEVES 70; IX GOOD SAMARITANS • 81; X TUE SIIUTTERRO COACH 91; Xl I HOLD A TURNPJKE · 102; XII I COllE TO BRISTown-AND LEAVE UNWILLINGLY HI; XIII DUGUAy·TROUlN • · 123; XIV HARMO!