Silas and the Runaway Coach

by Cecil Bødker

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Follows the further adventures of a fiercely independent country boy as he briefly resides with the family of a wealthy urban merchant.

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No longer able to stay quietly in Ben-Godik's village, Silas rides forth one day in early spring. After rescuing a merchant's family from certain disaster, Silas is invited by the merchant to live with them and learn to read and write. But this new life proves stiff and confining, so Silas leads Japetus, the merchant's eldest son, down to the waterfront, a sinister part of town. There they are kidnapped and thrown into the hold of a barge.
"En vagn kom farande nere på vägen, en täckt vagn, dragen av fyra hästar. Och som den körde! Hästarna stormade fram och vagnen slängde från den ena sidan av vägen till den andra. Det kunde aldrig gå väl.

Som genom ett under lyckas Silas stoppa de skenande hästarna. Det är så det kommer sig att Silas hamnar i köpman Plankes hus i staden.
Och det är så det kommer sig att han träffar sin ärkefiende, den ondskefulla Geten..."

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Silas and the Runaway Coach

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Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Kids, Tween
DDC/MDS
839.78Literature & rhetoricGerman & related literaturesOther Germanic literaturesSwedish literatureSwedish miscellany
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PZ7 .B635717Language and LiteratureFiction and juvenile belles lettresFiction and juvenile belles lettresJuvenile belles lettres

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