Five Cent Wide Awake Library (vol. 1) (1878 11 09)

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<a -YOUNG°MEN OF AMERICA. lor Sale~by All Newsdealers. 3a P - SHEMIVE GEN fi, - fa Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1819, by FRANK’ TOUSEY, $n the offlce of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. ©, Sy { = Entered at the Post Office at New York, N. Y., as Second Class Matter. , eer. | f _ = RS SA We ar et ’ P| ET FRANK TOUSEY, PUBLISHER, 18 Ross Street, N. Y. ; PRICE , ¥ Vol, I {comPL = f / November 9, 1878, sprite Subscription Price $2.50 per year. 5 CENTS, } ‘ N 0. 28 : AR I Alte ct CHAPTER I. i = —x ous ge the et paren = seem most scorched, with det de has pl ei ange ee We | | === | the intense heat; while.to look away across the broad At- it | We at the sea brought a pain inte ic in the south western corn+ il he eyes, so dazzling were the the Gulf of Mexico, stands if | diamond-tipped waves, and so city of Vera Cruz, or, as we }| oppressive the color. of the y at Lo ose the }; | gaily-tinted fishes which wero o gee pee RANE imming ¢ it fronts the sea oe apie i 4 rom: pe re hg «Dam clo, and is built oma dry, sandy | }t By-and-by .. oat puts offfrom plain, ovge which, in "certain hs the ship, and is ase coming to- seasons, the fierce north winds wards the town. blow with dreadful violence. ; ) 1 if \ " Nit It is rowed by four dailors It att ines dane ae I. | ii SAG H Whit q hata f and contains, besides three In the sun—about six feet f Ieee if | i H ma gage. pear tast It approaches the shore, the — keel grates harshly on the sand, Uy i} | i cae the sailors spring briskly 14 | =| l 4 nah <q] Out. ; ed | 4 \ } i OM .. With a “heave hol” they, haul up the boat, go’ that he | | on the top of which is a TAL EHDA ot wood, rotted with LUMA © shore on each side of | wm the north winds have Hl up hillocks of sand, some: em from twenty-five to |!): feet high, which change- form and position every and seen from the sea,\ hillocks seem to bury the if. | The latter are English, the ; : of ey one Lan te coe ; as = \\ wh) | at Lg ‘ ; ing man about forty years o rich and pomeciuLveracrazwas =, unre? 4 a A\S ll ee a ome lad, witte# cleae eparr the place through which all -~ = i | bi] Wen \\ \ NK: | ling eye,and fearless looking Mute. Pen between bend anes. ‘sai = i | ; ifr ' Ad) }_ =The boy is apparently about exico was ca wn on; aah fourteen years of age and, unlike with the decay of the Spanis' his companion, the very picture power, the importance of Vera of robust health. One has become less and less. In spite of the difference in rs j their appearance, there is suffi- . cient Hkeness between the two ‘ , wart they e) related, and I ’ : y tell you at onc ;,and to escape its deadly \ 7 : f ; : : Ul are father and son? Lagos ee ‘ geater part of the in- Py { ie. Mr. Hale—for such is the Eng- lishman’s name—has resided in Spain for a year or two, and has now come out to Mexico to tuke charge ee ofa cue mine a ebla, a town about f the lowest class of na- } [ei dj ; a miserable, degraded set \ SS Nl N } 5 ¥e ; Cn he ela and ¢3n miles sr oh i R Wi % y His wife died some ten y im before the date at which 8tory opens, leeway an only gon, Harry, between whom ang his ly father a strony affection Stan di-¢ together e shore, they watch their luggage iy YU, ZZ ‘town is thus left to the thing but gluttonous sopilotes } or turkey buzzards, which with ff the lean, yelping dogs, act as RM | scavengers, ane one gorge Ht themselves with the foul refuse c 2 i being tdken ffom the boat and tyne eo es ‘ S Z | s placed on, the back of a couple Tigh the’ LMAY : | of mules, the property of a lazy- SN looking Mexican ; and when all is ready they prepare to walk towards the town. « Adio, amigo” (Good-bye, friend,’’) said Mr. Hale, shaking hands with the mate, a swarthy Spaniard. 3 ry ** Adios, caballeros tien viage”— - (Good-bye, gentlenien, a ood journey”), returned the latter, and the boat is pushed off by ———* the sailors, who spring lightly 4m,-and, take their places at the oars. ; | Waving a last farewell, witb their hats, the two rye mt slowly follow the mules to thé hotel, gt As the, walk throngh the at } : 7 : —S serted ainsi dtigaibence et ; ; om) ‘ * ‘ ; ¢ j : : reigns around seems to oe With face flushed and wild with excitement, he seiseit the captain's hand, and shaking it heartily, cried : “T'U most oppressive, Slightly Shiw , f . a0 wit you, Captain Raymond, with all my heart.’ ~ i ering us Le spoke, Mr. Hale said ~ wretched man or womap who ,'s seized “by the dreaded vomito } or frequently but a very few | ours elapse between the attack Un death. : On the ‘16th of Atigust, 1850, as in brig cast anchor near the eas’ og St. Juan de Ulloa, which ds onan island oppo- site the town of ‘Vera Cruz, d about half a mile distant from it, . | “The white honses of the town mags in the fierce sunshine : | as if they had been covered with SSS — ~ yellow ti hing over the ‘Romes ad's pres of the numer ' c { ‘ 7 zor be