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Title: Ben Comee
A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59

Author: M. J. (Michael Joseph) Canavan

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Language: English

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BEN COMEE

A Tale of Rogers's Rangers
1758-59

by

M. J. CANAVAN

[Illustration: "HE FIRED, BUT MISSED ME."--PAGE 117]

New York
The MacMillan Company
London: MacMillan and Co., Ltd.
1922

All rights reserved

Copyright, 1899,
by the MacMillan Company.

Set up and electrotyped October, 1899. Reprinted November,
1899; February, 1908; October, 1910; September, 1913; November,
1916.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

CONTENTS

PAGE
CHAPTER I

Ben is born in Lexington 1737--Schools and Schoolfellows 1

CHAPTER II

They trap Muskrats--Bishop Hancock and his Grandson John 14

CHAPTER III

In which are Details of a Great Fox Hunt 30

CHAPTER IV

Trading in those Days--Ben is apprenticed--The Enlisting
Sergeant--Court Day at Concord 51

CHAPTER V

Pigeon Tuesday and its Exploits 64

CHAPTER VI

A Pauper's Funeral--Ben's Friend the Minister, and Ben's
Victory in Wrestling 74

CHAPTER VII

Tales from the Frontier--Mr. Tythingman and his Services 88

CHAPTER VIII

Ben and Amos join Rogers's