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The Crystal Hunters, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
Author: George Manville Fenn
Illustrator: Fredric W. Burton
Release Date: February 4, 2008 [EBook #24516]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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The Crystal Hunters
CHAPTER ONE.
TWO MEN AND A BOY.
"Steady there! Stop! Hold hard!"
"What's the matter, Mr Dale?"
"Matter, Saxe, my boy? Well, this. I undertook to take you back to your father and mother some day, sound in wind and limb; but if you begin like that, the trip's over, and we shall have to start back for England in less than a week--at least, I shall, with my luggage increased by a case containing broken boy."
There was a loud burst of hearty laughter from the manly-looking lad addressed, as he stood, with his hands clinging and his head twisted round, to look back: for he had spread-eagled himself against a nearly perpendicular scarp of rock which he had begun to climb, so as to reach a patch of wild rhododendrons.
There was another personage present, in the shape of a sturdy, muscu