Charlie to the Rescue: Large Print

By: Ballantyne, Robert Michael

We have no intention of carrying our reader on step by step through all the adventures and deeds of Charlie Brooke. It is necessary to hasten over his boyhood, leaving untold the many battles fought, risks run, and dangers encountered.He did not cut much of a figure at the village school-though he did his best, and was fairly successful-but in the playground he reigned supreme. At football, cricket, gymnastics, and, ultimately, at swimming, no one could come near him. This was partly owing to his great physical strength, for, as time passed by he shot upwards and outwards in a way that surprised his companions and amazed his mother, who was a distinctly little woman-a neat graceful little woman-with, like her stalwart son, a modest opinion of herself.As a matter of course, Charlie's school-fellows almost worshipped him, and he was always so willing to help and lead them in all cases of danger or emergency, that "Charlie to the rescue!" became quite a familiar cry on the playground. Indeed it would have been equally appropriate in the school, for the lad never seemed to be so thoroughly happy as when he was assisting some boy less capable than himself to master his lessons.About the time that Charlie left school, while yet a stripling, he had the shoulders of Samson, the chest of Hercules, and the limbs of Apollo. He was tall also-over six feet-but his unusual breadth deceived people as to this till they stood close to him. Fair hair, close and curly, with bright blue eyes and a permanent look of grave benignity, completes our description of him.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0915V5Q26
• ISBN13: 9798729602353
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.5" x 11.0"