Excerpt from Karmel the Scout, or the Rebel of the Jerseys: A Story of the American Revolution Karmel the Scout is one of Sylvanus Cobb, Jr.'s, very best stories. The scene is laid in the picturesque region of New Jersey occupied by the British and Continental troops in the stirring days of the Revolutionary War. The incidents described are many of them true to history, with just enough romance thrown in to make an exciting and connected story. Old Karmel himself was a real personage, and real characters play a prominent part in the story, giving it a double interest thereby, for fascinating as is fiction fact is more so. When a reader feels that the ex citing story he has been reading is a true one he takes a double satisfaction out of it. The hero of the story - that is, the hero after Karmel - is a dashing young captain who did good service for Gen. Washington on the high seas, while the villain is a colonel in the army of his British Majesty. An author who lays his story in such times as those of the American Revolution has material to work from that it would be hard to find hanging around the story of any other war. From Bunker Hill to Yorktown it is one con tinned chapter of thrilling adventure and heroic action. Mr. Cobb has made the most of his splendid material, and Karmel the Scout will hold the attention of thousands of readers until the candle drops in its socket and the clock tells off the small hours of the morning. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.