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Title: Facing Death
The Hero of the Vaughan Pit. A Tale of the Coal Mines

Author: G. A. Henty

Illustrator: Gordon Browne

Release Date: January 30, 2010 [EBook #31128]

Language: English

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[Illustration: BULLDOG FINDS A FRIEND.]

FACING DEATH
OR,
THE HERO OF THE VAUGHAN PIT.

A TALE OF THE COAL MINES.

BY
G. A. HENTY,

Author of "With Clive in India;" "In Freedom's Cause;"
"By Sheer Pluck;" "Under Drake's Flag;" &c.

_WITH EIGHT FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY GORDON BROWNE._

LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, LIMITED;

NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS,
743 AND 745 BROADWAY

CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE
I. EVIL TIDINGS, 9
II. BULL-DOG, 16
III. THE RESOLUTION, 31
IV. THE VAUGHAN PIT, 39
V. SETTING TO WORK, 49
VI. "THE OLD SHAFT," 54
VII. FRIENDSHIP, 64
VIII. PROGRESS, 74
IX. THE GREAT STRIKE, 80
X. HARD TIMES, 96
XI. THE ATTACK ON THE ENGINE-HOUSE, 105
XII. AFTER THE STRIKE, 117
XIII. A HEAVY LOSS, 124
XIV. THE NIGHT-SCHOOL, 134
XV. THE SEWING-CLASS, 146
XVI. A NEW LIFE, 156
XVII. THE DOG FIGHT, 166
XVIII. STOKEBRIDGE FEAST, 173
XIX. THE GREAT RIOT, 183
XX. THE ARM OF THE LAW, 1