A Lad of Grit
A Lad of Grit by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman is available here as the complete text, split into 478 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
A Lad of Grit: A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea in Restoration Times by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman. Complete source text from Project Gutenberg eBook #39490.
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- Chapter I How the Tidings of the Restoration Came to Rake
- Chapter II Of the Arrest and Escape of Increase Joyce
- Chapter III Concerning my Journey to Portsmouth
- Chapter IV How Judgment was Passed on the Dorset Smugglers
- Chapter V Of my First Ship, the _Gannet_
- Chapter VI
- Chapter VII Concerning the Treasure Island
- Chapter VIII Of an Encounter with an Algerine Corsair
- Chapter IX I lose the _Little Gannet_
- Chapter X How I Defended the Foretop
- Chapter XI Of the Manner of my Homecoming
- Chapter XII The Smugglers’ Cave
- Chapter XIII The Escape
- Chapter XIV I Set Out to Fight the Dutch
- Chapter XV Of the Famous Sea Fight of Four Days
- Chapter XVI I Meet an Old Enemy
- Chapter XVII Showing that there are Two Means of Leaving a Prison
- Chapter XVIII The Veil is Partly Drawn
- Chapter XIX How Three Horsemen set out for the North
- Chapter XX What we Heard and Saw at Holwick
- Chapter XXI Our Search for the Treasure
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