Captain Sam

Captain Sam

The Boy Scouts of 1814

termine why. It annoyed him sorely as he remembered the loud cheering of the boys. He chafed under the consciousness of defeat, and dreaded, the hints he was sure to receive whenever he should bully any of his companions, that he had a score still unsettled with Sam Hardwicke. He knew that he was a coward, and that the other boys had found it out, and he almost groaned as he lay there in the silence and darkness, meditating revenge. A little after midnight he got up silently and crept along the river bank to the clump of bushes where Sam lay soundly sleeping. His first impulse was to jump upon the sleeper and fight him with an unfair advantage, but he was not yet free from the restraining influence of Sam's eye and voice so recently brought to bear upon him. No, he dared not attack Sam even with so great an advantage. He must injure him secretly as he had determined to do. Creeping along upon all-fours, he felt about for Sam's boots, and finding them at last, was just about to move away w

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