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Title: The Race of the Swift

Author: Edwin Carlile Litsey

Illustrator: Charles Livingston Bull

Release date: January 25, 2018 [eBook #56430]

Language: English

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THE RACE OF THE SWIFT

“The gray fox was leading bravely.” Frontispiece. See page 16.

THE
RACE OF THE SWIFT
BY
EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY
AUTHOR OF “THE LOVE STORY OF ABNER STONE”
Illustrated from Drawings by
CHARLES LIVINGSTON BULL
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1905
Copyright, 1903, 1904,
By Frank Leslie Publishing House.
Copyright, 1904,
By Field and Stream, Inc.
Copyright, 1905,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published October, 1905
THE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
TO
CARRIE SELECMAN LITSEY
I INSCRIBE THESE STORIES
E. C. L.

The author wishes to make public acknowledgment to Leslie’s Monthly Magazine for permission to use in this volume “The Race of the Swift,” “The King of the Northern Slope,” and “The Ghost Coon.” Thanks are also due Field and Stream for their courtesy in allowing the use of “The Fight on the Tree-Bridge.” The other stories presented here have never appeared in print before.

CONTENTS
The Race of the Swift 1
 
The Robber Baron 21
 
The Ghost Coon 43
 
The Spoiler of the Folds 63
 
The Fight on the Tree-Bridge 83
 
The Guardian of the Flock 107
 
The King of the Northern Slope 129
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
From drawings by Charles Livingston Bull
“The gray fox was leading bravely.” Frontispiece
 
“Zigzagging nimbly, he strove to elude his pursuer” 41
 
“What was this upon his bridge!” 102
 
“The King stopped long enough to throw back his head and give one terrifying scream of victory” 143
THE RACE OF THE SWIFT