Held by Chinese Brigands
Held by Chinese Brigands by Charles Gilson is available here as the complete text, split into 812 reading sections of 5 sentences, each with audio and tap-to-define vocabulary.
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- Chapter I How Hennessy K. Waldron "Tripped Around"
- Chapter II Of Ah Wu’s Opium Den
- Chapter III
- Chapter IV How Cheong-Chau Came Forth of the Town of Pinglo
- Chapter V How Cheong-Chau Struck at Dead of Night
- Chapter VI How Cheong-Chau Stated His Terms
- Chapter VII How the Letter Was Written
- Chapter VIII And How Frank Resolved to Follow It
- Chapter IX Of the Hospitality of the Tea-Grower
- Chapter X How Frank Was in Luck’s Way
- Chapter XI Of the Reappearance of Ling
- Chapter XII How Men-Ching Escaped
- Chapter XIII How Frank Was Caught in the Toils
- Chapter XIV How Ling Snuffed the Candle
- Chapter XV Of Cheong-Chau’s Messenger
- Chapter XVI Of the Repentance of Yung How
- Chapter XVII How Ling Was Too Late
- Chapter XVIII Of the Spider and the Web
- Chapter XIX How Ling Read Confucius
- Chapter XX How the Tiger Sprang
- Chapter XXI Of the Glade of Children’s Tears
- Chapter XXII Of the Capture of the Junk
- Chapter XXIII How the Treasure Arrived
- Chapter XXIV How the Tiger Vanished in Thin Air
- Chapter XXV And How Cheong-Chau Vanished Altogether
- Chapter XXVI Of Greed of Gold
- Chapter XXVII How Ling Drifted to the Stars
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