{"product_id":"2940013654730","title":"The Young Fur Traders","description":"CHAPTER I Plunges the reader into the middle of an arctic winter;\u003cbr\u003econveys him into the heart of the wildernesses of North America; and\u003cbr\u003eintroduces him to some of the principal personages of our tale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II The old fur-trader endeavours to \"fix\" his son's \"flint,\"\u003cbr\u003eand finds the thing more difficult to do than he expected\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III The counting-room\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV. A wolf-hunt in the prairies; Charley astonishes his\u003cbr\u003efather, and breaks in the \"noo'oss\" effectually\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V Peter Mactavish becomes an amateur doctor; Charley\u003cbr\u003epromulgates his views of things in general to Kate; and Kate waxes\u003cbr\u003esagacious\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI Spring and the voyageurs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII. The store\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII. Farewell to Kate; departure of the brigade; Charley\u003cbr\u003ebecomes a voyageur\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX. The voyage; the encampment; a surprise\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X. Varieties, vexations, and vicissitudes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XI. Charley and Harry begin their sporting career without\u003cbr\u003emuch success; Whisky-John catching\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XII. The storm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIII. The canoe; ascending the rapids; the portage; deer-\u003cbr\u003eshooting and life in the woods\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIV. The Indian camp; the new outpost; Charley sent on a\u003cbr\u003emission to the Indians\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XV. The feast; Charley makes his first speech in public;\u003cbr\u003emeets with an old friend; an evening in the grass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVI The return; narrow escape; a murderous attempt, which\u003cbr\u003efails; and a discovery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVII The scene changes; Bachelors' Hall; a practical joke and\u003cbr\u003eits consequences; a snow-shoe walk at night in the forest\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVIII The walk continued; frozen toes; an encampment in the\u003cbr\u003esnow\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIX Shows how the accountant and Harry set their traps, and\u003cbr\u003ewhat came of it\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XX The accountant's story\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXI Ptarmigan-hunting; Hamilton's shooting powers severely\u003cbr\u003etested; a snow-storm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXII The winter packet; Harry hears from old friends, and\u003cbr\u003ewishes that he was with them CHAPTER XXIII Changes; Harry and\u003cbr\u003eHamilton find that variety is indeed, charming; the latter astonishes\u003cbr\u003ethe former considerably\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXIV Hopes and fears; an unexpected meeting; philosophical\u003cbr\u003etalk between the hunter and the parson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXV Good news and romantic scenery; bear-hunting and its\u003cbr\u003eresults\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXVI An unexpected meeting, and an unexpected deer-hunt;\u003cbr\u003earrival at the outpost; disagreement with the natives; an enemy\u003cbr\u003ediscovered, and a murder\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXVII The chase; the fight; retribution; low spirits and good\u003cbr\u003enews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXVIII Old friends and scenes; coming events cast their\u003cbr\u003eshadows before\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXIX The first day at home; a gallop in the prairie, and its\u003cbr\u003econsequences\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXX Love; old Mr. Kennedy puts his foot in it\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXXI The course of true love, curiously enough, runs smooth\u003cbr\u003efor once; and the curtain falls\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlunges the reader into the middle of an Arctic winter; conveys him\u003cbr\u003einto the heart of the wildernesses of North America; and introduces\u003cbr\u003ehim to some of the principal personages of our tale.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSnowflakes and sunbeams, heat and cold, winter and summer, alternated\u003cbr\u003ewith their wonted regularity for fifteen years in the wild regions of\u003cbr\u003ethe Far North. During this space of time the hero of our tale\u003cbr\u003esprouted from babyhood to boyhood, passed through the usual amount of\u003cbr\u003eaccidents, ailments, and vicissitudes incidental to those periods of\u003cbr\u003elife, and finally entered upon that ambiguous condition that precedes\u003cbr\u003eearly manhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a clear, cold winter's day. The sunbeams of summer were long\u003cbr\u003epast, and snowflakes had fallen thickly on the banks of Red River.\u003cbr\u003eCharley sat on a lump of blue ice, his head drooping and his eyes\u003cbr\u003ebent on the snow at his feet with an expression of deep\u003cbr\u003edisconsolation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKate reclined at Charley's side, looking wistfully up in his\u003cbr\u003eexpressive face, as if to read the thoughts that were chasing each\u003cbr\u003eother through his mind, like the ever-varying clouds that floated in\u003cbr\u003ethe winter sky above. It was quite evident to the most careless\u003cbr\u003eobserver that, whatever might be the usual temperaments of the boy\u003cbr\u003eand girl, their present state of mind was not joyous, but on the\u003cbr\u003econtrary, very sad.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It won't do, sister Kate,\" said Charley. \"I've tried him over and\u003cbr\u003eover again--I've implored, begged, and entreated him to let me go;\u003cbr\u003ebut he won't, and I'm determined to run away, so there's an end of\u003cbr\u003eit!\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47156674429168,"sku":"2940013654730","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013654730_p0.jpg?v=1763583971","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013654730","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}