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Title: The Riverpark Rebellion

Author: Homer Greene

Release date: June 30, 2014 [eBook #46146]
Most recently updated: October 24, 2024

Language: English

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THE RIVERPARK REBELLION


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The
Riverpark Rebellion

BY

HOMER GREENE

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

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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.