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Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished: A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure
The story delves into the lives of two homeless boys in London's East End, focusing on their struggles and adventures as they transition from street life to new beginnings in Canada.
"Dusty Diamonds Cut and Polished: A Tale of City Arab Life and Adventure" by R.M. Ballantyne is a novel. The story delves into the lives of two homeless boys in London's East End, focusing on their struggles and adventures as they transition from street life to new beginnings in Canada.
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Every one has heard of those ponies—those shaggy, chubby, innocent-looking little creatures—for which the world is indebted, we suppose, to Shetland.
Well, once on a time, one of the most innocent-looking, chubbiest, and shaggiest of Shetland ponies—a dark brown one—stood at the door of a mansion in the west-end of London.
It was attached to a wickerwork vehicle which resembled a large clothes-basket on small wheels. We do not mean, of course, that the pony was affectionately attached to it. No; the attachment was involuntary and unavoidable, by reason of a brand-new yellow leather harness with brass buckles. It objected to the attachment, obviously, for it sidled this way, and straddled that way, and whisked its enormous little tail, and tossed its rotund little head, and stamped its ridiculously small feet; and champed its miniature bit, as if it had been a war-horse of the largest size, fit to carry a Wallace, a Bruce, or a Richard of the Lion-heart, into the midst of raging battle.
And no wonder; for many months had not elapsed since that brown creature had kicked up its little heels, and twirled its tail, and shaken its shaggy mane in all the wild exuberance of early youth and unfettered freedom on the heather hills of its native island.
Contents
- 01An Accident and some of its Curious Results.
- 02Chapter Two.
- 03The Irresistible Power of Love.
- 04Chapter Three.
- 05Poverty Manages to Board out her Infant for Nothing.
- 06Chapter Four.
- 07Samuel Twitter astonishes Mrs Twitter and her Friends.
- 08Chapter Five.
- 09Treats still further of Riches, Poverty, Babies, and Police.
- 10Chapter Six.
- 11Wealth pays a Visit to Poverty.
- 12Chapter Seven.
- 13Bicycling and its Occasional Results.
- 14Chapter Eight.
- 15A Great and Memorable Day.
- 16Chapter Nine.
- 17How the Poor are Succoured.
- 18Chapter Ten.
- 19Balls, Bobby, Sir Richard, and Giles appear on the Stage.
- 20Chapter Eleven.
- 21Sir Richard and Mr Brisbane discuss, and Di listens.
- 22Chapter Twelve.
- 23Sammy Twitter’s Fall.
- 24Chapter Thirteen.
- 25Tells of some Curious and Vigorous Peculiarities of the Lower Orders.
- 26Chapter Fourteen.
- 27Number 666 Off Duty.
- 28Chapter Fifteen.
- 29Mrs Frog sinks Deeper and Deeper.
- 30Chapter Sixteen.
- 31Sir Richard visits the Beehive, and sees many Surprising Things.
- 32Chapter Seventeen.
- 33Things become too hot for the Twitter Family.
- 34Chapter Eighteen.
- 35The Ocean and the New World.
- 36Chapter Nineteen.
- 37At Home in Canada.
- 38Chapter Twenty.
- 39Occupations at Brankly Farm.
- 40Chapter Twenty One.
- 41Treats of Altered Circumstances and Blue-Ribbonism.
- 42Chapter Twenty Two.
- 43Ned Frog’s Experiences and Sammy Twitter’s Woes.
- 44Chapter Twenty Three.
- 45Hopes revive.
- 46Chapter Twenty Four.
- 47The Returning Prodigal.
- 48Chapter Twenty Five.
- 49Canada again—and Surprising News.
- 50Chapter Twenty Six.
- 51Happy Meetings.
- 52Chapter Twenty Seven.
- 53A Strange Visit and its Results.
- 54Chapter Twenty Eight.
- 55The Great Change.
- 56Chapter Twenty Nine.
- 57Home Again.
- 58Chapter Thirty.
- 59The New Home.
- 60The End.
About this edition
- Author
- R. M. Ballantyne
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 354 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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