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The Riverpark Rebellion

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By Homer Greene
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The narrative follows life at a disciplined academy for young cadets, where precision drill, authority, and boyish rivalries produce conflicts that test character and loyalty. Incidents range from a drill instructor’s loss of temper and a student’s repeated insubordination to the formation of secret orders, petitions, a holiday mishap, a brief flight of fugitives, and a subsequent amnesty. Episodes alternate action and reflection, depicting camaraderie, challenges to command, and the negotiation between strict rules and adolescent independence.

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Title: The Riverpark Rebellion

Author: Homer Greene

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The
Riverpark Rebellion

BY

HOMER GREENE

AUTHOR OF “THE BLIND BROTHER,” “BURNHAM
BREAKER,” ETC.

NEW YORK
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1889,
By Perry Mason & Co.

Copyright, 1892,
By T. Y. Crowell & Co.

This Volume is Reverently Inscribed to the Memory

OF

Colonel OTIS BISBEE,

Who, in his lifetime, was Principal of the Riverview Military Academy at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and under whose guidance and instruction, long ago, two happy years were spent

By the Author.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. A Loss of Temper 7
II. Changing the Record 28
III. An Impertinent Petition 49
IV. The Order of the Black Star 70
V. A Hapless Holiday 89
VI. Quartered on a Haymow 109
VII. The Return of the Fugitives 128
VIII. A General Amnesty 148

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

“Anything else I can git for ye, young gentlemen?”
“These figures are correct. That is my true standing.”
He lay staring into the deep shadows, until it became impossible for him longer to remain quiet.