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- Author: Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
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- Category : Adventure stories
- Languages : en
- Pages : 330
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Boyeson (1848-95) was a Norwegian-American author and college professor best remembered for his novel Gunnar: A Tale of Norse Life (1874). This collection of stories for boys was first published in 1887 and is reprinted from the edition of 1921.
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Excerpt from The Modern Vikings: Stories of Life and Sport in the Norseland He was so frightened that he grew almost numb; his breath stuck in his throat, and the blood throbbed in his ears. Oh, you Sillibub shouted his brother after him, it was an otter chasing a salmon-trout. The trout will always leap, when chased. He had scarcely spoken when, but a few rods from Anders, appeared the black, shiny head again, this time with the trout in its mouth. He has his lair somewhere around here, said Thar ald; let us watch him, and see where he is going. The otter was nearing the shore. He swam rapidly, with a slightly undulating motion of the body, so that, at a distance, he might well have been mistaken for a large water-snake. When he had reached the shore, he dragged the fish up on the sand, spied cautiously about him, to see if he was watched, and again seizing the trout, slid into the underbrush. There was something so de lightfully wild and wary about it that the boys felt the hunter's passion aroused in them, and they could scarcely take the time to fling on their clothes before starting in pursuit. Like Indians, they crept on hands and feet over the mossy ground, bent aside the bushes, and peered cautiously between the leaves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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