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[Illustration: BULLDOG FINDS A FRIEND.]




  FACING DEATH
  OR,
  THE HERO OF THE VAUGHAN PIT.

  A TALE OF THE COAL MINES.


  BY
  G. A. HENTY,

  Author of "With Clive in India;" "In Freedom's Cause;"
  "By Sheer Pluck;" "Under Drake's Flag;" &c.


  _WITH EIGHT FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS BY GORDON BROWNE._


  LONDON: BLACKIE & SON, LIMITED;

  NEW YORK: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS,
  743 AND 745 BROADWAY




  CONTENTS.


    CHAP.                                          PAGE
       I. EVIL TIDINGS,                               9
      II. BULL-DOG,                                  16
     III. THE RESOLUTION,                            31
      IV. THE VAUGHAN PIT,                           39
       V. SETTING TO WORK,                           49
      VI. "THE OLD SHAFT,"                           54
     VII. FRIENDSHIP,                                64
    VIII. PROGRESS,                                  74
      IX. THE GREAT STRIKE,                          80
       X. HARD TIMES,                                96
      XI. THE ATTACK ON THE ENGINE-HOUSE,           105
     XII. AFTER THE STRIKE,                         117
    XIII. A HEAVY LOSS,                             124
     XIV. THE NIGHT-SCHOOL,                         134
      XV. THE SEWING-CLASS,                         146
     XVI. A NEW LIFE,                               156
    XVII. THE DOG FIGHT,                            166
   XVIII. STOKEBRIDGE FEAST,                        173
    