CHAPTER I.
The play commences.
Blown to bits; bits so inconceivably, so ineffably,
so “microscopically” small that—­but
let us not anticipate.
About the darkest hour of a very da...
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One of the most popular, prolific, and influential writers of nineteenth-century boys' adventure stories and historical fiction, R. M. Ballantyne wrote around one hundred books, many set in exotic loc...
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Blown to Bits
R(obert) M(ichael) Ballantyne