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Title: Terry's Trials and Triumphs

Author: J. Macdonald Oxley

Release Date: September 17, 2010 [EBook #33754]

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[Frontispiece: "_Down sank the gallant ship, driving her crew to the
spar-deck._" Page 96.]

TERRY'S TRIALS

AND

TRIUMPHS

BY

J. MACDONALD OXLEY

Author of "In the Wilds of the West Coast," "Diamond Rock,"
"Up Among the Ice-Floes," "My Strange Rescue,"
&c., &c.

T. NELSON AND SONS

London, Edinburgh, and New York

1900

CONTENTS.

I. A POOR START
II. THE WAY OPENS
III. UNEVEN GOING
IV. PERILS BY THE WAY
V. ON BOARD THE "MINNESOTA"
VI. IN HAMPTON ROADS
VII. THE GREAT NAVAL COMBAT
VIII. ADVENTURES ASHORE
IX. FROM FRIEND TO FRIEND
X. REINSTATED
XI. IN A STRAIT BETWIXT TWO
XII. ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Down sank the gallant ship, driving her crew to the spar-deck."

"On being lifted carefully in, Miss Drummond fainted for the moment."

"Terry, attired as never before, set out for Long Wharf."

"The whole ship had the appearance of being in readiness for an
expected foe."

"He succeeded in ingratiating himself with the driver of the train."

TERRY'S TRIALS AND TRIUMPHS.

CHAPTER I.

A POOR START.

"Give it to him, Terry--that's the style!" "Punch his head!" "Hit him
in the face, Mike!" "Good for you, Terry--that was a daisy!" "Stick to
him, me hearty; ye'll lick him yet!"

The shouts came from a ring of ragged, dirty youngsters, who were
watching with intense excitement a hand-to-hand and foot-to-foot fight
between two of their own kind--a rough-and-tumble affair of the most
disorderly sort.

They were not well-matched combatants, the one called Terry being much
inferior in size and weight to the other; but he evidently had the
sympathy of the majority of the spectators, and he displayed an amount
of vigour and agility that went