The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Big Blue Soldier, by Grace Livingston Hill This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license Title: The Big Blue Soldier Author: Grace Livingston Hill Release Date: October 27, 2019 [EBook #60580] Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BIG BLUE SOLDIER *** Produced by Tim Lindell, David E. Brown, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE BIG BLUE SOLDIER GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL’S Charming and Wholesome Romances The City of Fire The Tryst Cloudy Jewel Exit Betty The Search The Red Signal The Enchanted Barn The Finding of Jasper Holt The Obsession of Victoria Gracen Miranda The Best Man Lo, Mic...
THE STICKER AND THE GAME NE DAY I’LL TELL A STORY ABOUT PAINTING YOUR NAILS and barbies and stuff — you know, with teapots and gossip and all that. But as for now, I’m telling a story about sea-ruffians or pirates to the common man, so there won’t be any nail-painting or excited blabber here. Not unless its fingernails painted in traitor’s guts, and blabber about treasure and battle, which is just the kind of story I would have liked when I was a boy. And it’s just the kind of thing that happened to me when I was a young man overseas, when I met a person called Jim. Longfellow Jim, as some called him because of his enormous height, was traipsing around my seaport when I was at the age of sixteen. I had dropped out of school a year earlier and had been shipped off to the South Seas in punishment of my bad behavior. My place in the world, where I was allowed to exist, was in the service of the kitchen, as a dishwasher. I was responsible for the slop that was fed to you from this half-rat...