The Human Boy Again

HE CANED ME FOR INSOLENCE, COMBINED WITH IRREVERENCE.
THE HUMAN BOY AGAIN
EDEN PHILLPOTTS
AUTHOR OF THE HUMAN BOY
There are those who scoff at the school-boy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the school-boy who said, 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so.' — Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar .
Man is more childish than woman. In the true man there is a child hidden: it wanteth to play. —F. NIETZSCHE.
LONDON CHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD. 1908
RICHARD CLAY & SONS, LIMITED, BREAD STREET HILL, E.C., AND BUNGAY, SUFFOLK.
TO MY DEAR FRIEND, MARK TWAIN, FATHER OF 'TOM SAWYER' AND 'HUCKLEBERRY FINN,' THESE HUMAN BOYS, WITH SINCEREST REGARD.
CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
PETERS, DETECTIVE