Gallegher And Other Stories: (Richard Harding Davis Classics Collection) Contributor(s): Harding Davis, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 1508618542 ISBN-13: 9781508618546 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $6.64 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2015 |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
Physical Information: 0.21" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.32 lbs) 100 pages |
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Publisher Description: All Gallegher knew had been learnt on the streets; not a very good school in itself, but one that turns out very knowing scholars. And Gallegher had attended both morning and evening sessions. He could not tell you who the Pilgrim Fathers were, nor could he name the thirteen original States, but he knew all the officers of the twenty-second police district by name, and he could distinguish the clang of a fire-engine's gong from that of a patrol-wagon or an ambulance fully two blocks distant. It was Gallegher who rang the alarm when the Woolwich Mills caught fire, while the officer on the beat was asleep, and it was Gallegher who led the "Black Diamonds" against the "Wharf Rats," when they used to stone each other to their hearts' content on the coal-wharves of Richmond. |