Chapter I: Preface

Courage to dare, fortitude to endure, enterprise to accumulate, and prudence to retain, are qualities that, however valuable in themselves, when in excess impart to character a coloring dry, hard, and even render it repulsive. But if beneath the exuberance of young life we detect the germs of those sympathies that, travelling beyond the limits of self, recognizing the common bond that links all humanity, holds fellowship with the joys and sorrows of others; that true nobility of soul, not derived from without, but existing within, and ennobling whatever it touches,--it is then that youth becomes most attractive, its efforts win sympathy, its example is contagious. With ability to accumulate, pluck to dare, and under the influence of the principles referred to, these young deliverers consecrate themselves to a high purpose, encounter peril and fatigue to break the fetters of their humble friend, and restore him to his country and friends.

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CHAPTER I. THE OVEN. 9

CHAPTER II. NED PROPOSES TO IMPROVE THE DIVINE PLAN. 23

CHAPTER III. THE BOYS CONSCIOUS OF HIGHER AIMS. 38

CHAPTER IV. GABRIEL QUESNARD. 50

CHAPTER V. THE YANKEE BOYS' HOLIDAY IN PROVENCE. 67

CHAPTER VI. THE POWER OF ASSOCIATION. 83

CHAPTER VII. YANKEE INGENUITY AMONG THE PEASANTS. 105

CHAPTER VIII. THE LAST DAY WITH THE PEASANTS. 130

CHAPTER IX. THE MISTRAL. 142

CHAPTER X. THE INFERNAL. 164

CHAPTER XI. A STARTLING DISCLOSURE. 182

CHAPTER XII. THE NOBLE VOLUNTEERS. 208

CHAPTER XIII. CAPTAIN RHINES AND DICK CAMERON. 222

CHAPTER XIV. WALTER AND HENRI LEMAIRE. 238

CHAPTER XV. VAUCLIN. 259

CHAPTER XVI. "O, MASSA, BUCKRA CALKER!" 283

CHAPTER XVII. DELIVERED. 298

THE YOUNG DELIVERERS

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