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Title: The Ordeal of Colonel Johns
Author: George H. Smith
Illustrator: Rudolph Palais
Release Date: June 4, 2010 [EBook #32688]
Language: English
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The Ordeal of COLONEL JOHNS
By George H. Smith
Illustrated by Rudolph Palais
Colonel Johns, that famous Revolutionary War hero, had the unique—and painful—experience of meeting his great-great-great-great granddaughter. Now maybe you can't change history, but what's there to prevent a soldier from changing his mind about the gal he is going to marry?
lark Decker winced and scrounged still lower in his seat as Mrs. Appleby-Simpkin rested her enormous bosom on the front of the podium and smiled down on the Patriot Daughters of America in convention assembled as she announced: And now, my dears, I will read you one more short quotation from Major Wicks' fascinating book 'The Minor Tactics of The American Revolution.' When I am finished, I know that you will all agree that Rebecca Johns-Hayes will be a more than fitting successor to myself as your President.
Decker looked wildly about for a way of escape from the