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Title: Captain Jinks, Hero

Author: Ernest Crosby

Illustrator: Dan Beard

Release Date: September 22, 2006 [EBook #19353]

Language: English

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[Illustration: CAPTAIN JINKS, HERO
"SAM WAS TAKEN STRADDLING A CHAIR" [_Page 124_]]

Captain Jinks
Hero

BY

ERNEST CROSBY

_Author of
"Plain Talk in Psalm and Parable"_

_Illustrations by_
DAN BEARD

[Illustration]

NEW YORK AND LONDON
FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

1902

COPYRIGHT, 1902,
By FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY

_Registered at Stationers' Hall, London_

_Printed in the United States_

_Published February, 1902_

_TO_
F. C.

CONTENTS AND CARTOONS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A BOMBSHELL, 1
II. EAST POINT, 14
III. LOVE AND COMBAT, 34
IV. WAR AND BUSINESS, 60
V. SLOWBURGH, 89
VI. OFF FOR THE CUBAPINES, 117
VII. THE BATTLE OF SAN DIEGO, 151
VIII. AMONG THE MORITOS, 185
IX. ON DUTY AT HAVILLA, 216
X. A GREAT MILITARY EXPLOIT, 240
XI. A DINNER PARTY AT GIN-SIN, 250
XII. THE GREAT WHITE TEMPLE, 277
XIII. THE WAR-LORD, 310
XIV. HOME AGAIN, 338
XV. POLITICS, 365
XVI. THE END, 374

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