By Sheer Pluck: A Tale of the Ashanti War : 9781515206644

"Now, Hargate, what a fellow you are! I've been looking for you everywhere. Don't you know it's the House against the Town boys. It's lucky that the Town have got the first innings; they began a quarter of an hour ago." "How tiresome!" Frank Hargate said. "I was watching a most interesting thing here. Don't you see this little chaffinch nest in the bush, with a newly hatched brood. There was a small black snake threatening the nest, and the mother was defending it with quivering wings and open beak. I never saw a prettier thing. I sat quite still and neither of them seemed to notice me. Of course I should have interfered if I had seen the snake getting the best of it. When you came running up like a cart horse, the snake glided away in the grass, and the bird flew off. Oh, dear! I am sorry. I had forgotten all about the match."

Author: G. a. Henty

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Publication Date: Jul 23, 2015

Number of Pages: 140 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 1515206645

ISBN-13: 9781515206644