The Story of Oliver Hazard Perry for Young Readers
The book The Story of Oliver Hazard Perry for Young Readers was written by author Mabel Borton Beebe Here you can read free online of The Story of Oliver Hazard Perry for Young Readers book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Story of Oliver Hazard Perry for Young Readers a good or bad book?
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On February 2 2d, in the coldest part of winter, he left his home and his young wife in Newport, and with his brother Alexander, began the difficult journey to- wards the north. Sometimes they traveled in rude sleighs over the roughest of roads. Sometimes, when the river was not too full of ice, they embarked in canoes. At other times, they could only go on foot through the thick underbrush. On all sides was a vast THE STORY OF OLIVER HAZARD PERRY. wilderness, inhabited only by wild beasts and ...un- friendly Indians. At Oswego, they embarked in boats and followed the shore of Lake Ontario to Sacketts Harbor. On one side of them was the dreary inland sea full of tossing white caps and overhung by the leaden sky of winter. On the other side lay the trackless forest. To relieve their loneliness, they occasionally fired a musket. The echoes would roll along the shore, growing fainter and fainter. This only made the silence which followed seem greater than before. A cold rain began to fall, and by the time they reached Sacketts Harbor they were drenched to the skin.
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