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Title: Nathan Hale

Author: Jean Christie Root

Release Date: March 15, 2010 [EBook #31650]

Language: English

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TRUE STORIES OF GREAT AMERICANS

NATHAN HALE

BY

JEAN CHRISTIE ROOT

"O Beautiful! my Country! ...,
What were our lives without thee?
What all our lives to save thee?
We reck not what we gave thee;
We will not dare to doubt thee,
But ask whatever else, and we will dare!"

_Commemoration Ode_,
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL

THE WORLD SYNDICATE PUBLISHING CO.
Cleveland, O. New York, N. Y.

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

COPYRIGHT, 1915,

BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

Set up and electrotyped. Published May, 1915. Reprinted
August, 1925; March, 1929.

CONTENTS

PAGE

CHAPTER I
NATHAN HALE'S EARLY YEARS 1

CHAPTER II
COLLEGE DAYS 12

CHAPTER III
A CALL TO TEACH 29

CHAPTER IV
A CALL TO ARMS 44

CHAPTER V
HALE'S ZEAL AS A SOLDIER 60

CHAPTER VI
A PERILOUS SERVICE 71

CHAPTER VII
GRIEF FOR THE YOUNG PATRIOT 91

CHAPTER VIII
TRIBUTES TO NATHAN HALE 103

CHAPTER IX
NATHAN HALE'S FRIENDS 114

THE REV. JOSEPH HUNTINGTON, D.D. 114
ALICE ADAMS 118
BENJAMIN TALLMADGE 125
WILLIAM HULL 129
STEPHEN HEM