Bernard Brooks' Adventures: The Experience of a Plucky Boy
By Horatio Alger, Jr.
A. L. Burt Company, Publishers New York Copyright, 1903
CONTENTS
BERNARD BROOKS’ ADVENTURES.
You’re a bad lot, Bernard Brooks. I don’t think I ever knew a wuss boy.”
“Thank you for the compliment, Mr. Snowdon. Let me suggest, however, that wuss is hardly correct English.”
The speaker was fifteen years of age, but as tall as most boys of seventeen. He had a bold, aggressive manner, which he only assumed with those he thought were hostile or unfriendly.
He could be a devoted friend, and a loyal subordinate to one who gained his good will. Mr. Snowdon he did not look upon as a friend, though he had been placed in his charge two months before by a cousin of his deceased father.
Ezekiel Snowdon, a man of perhaps sixty, tall and with stooping shoulders, colored with anger at the boy’s sarcastic words.
He claimed to have been educated at a small Western college, and on the strength of it had established himself in the country and advertised for private pupils at a low rate.
Jr. Horatio Alger
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CHAPTER I. BERNARD BROOKS.
CHAPTER II. BERNARD’S BOLDNESS.
CHAPTER III. BROUGHT TO BAY.
CHAPTER IV. A ROAD SIDE ACQUAINTANCE.
CHAPTER V. MR. PENROSE’S SECRET.
CHAPTER VI. BERNARD’S DANGER.
CHAPTER VII. AN UNEXPECTED CHAMPION.
CHAPTER VIII. THE CONSPIRATORS ARE FOILED.
CHAPTER IX. ON THE HUDSON RIVER BOAT.
CHAPTER X. HATCH, DETECTIVE.
CHAPTER XI. MR. SNOWDON LOSES HIS PUPIL.
CHAPTER XII. BERNARD MEETS A FRIEND OF HIS FATHER.
CHAPTER XIII. PROFESSOR PUFFER.
CHAPTER XIV. SOME OF THE PASSENGERS.
CHAPTER XV. JACK STAPLES.
CHAPTER XVI. A SCRAP OF PAPER.
CHAPTER XVII. BERNARD’S PERIL.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE EVENTS OF A NIGHT.
CHAPTER XIX. PROFESSOR PUFFERS DISCOMFITURE.
CHAPTER XX. A LOST CLUE.
CHAPTER XXI. A DAY IN LONDON.
CHAPTER XXII. DICK THE BOOTBLACK.
CHAPTER XXIII. AN APARTMENT AT MORLEY’S HOTEL.
CHAPTER XXIV. PROFESSOR PUFFER FROM HIS OWN POINT OF VIEW.
CHAPTER XXV. BERNARD’S GOOD FORTUNE
CHAPTER XXVI. PROFESSOR PUFFER ONCE MORE.
CHAPTER XXVII. A CITIZEN OF NEBRASKA.
CHAPTER XXVIII. ITALY SEEN THROUGH AMERICAN SPECTACLES.
CHAPTER XXIX. CAPTURED BY BANDITTI.
CHAPTER XXX. IN A TRAP.
CHAPTER XXXI. WALTER CUNNINGHAM’S MISSION.
CHAPTER XXXII. SUSPENSE.
CHAPTER XXXIII. RESCUED.
CHAPTER XXXIV. NAT BARCLAY’S LETTER.
CHAPTER XXXV. PROFESSOR PUFFER’S DECLINE AND FALL.
CHAPTER XXXVI. PROFESSOR PUFFER BECOMES AN ALLY.
CHAPTER XXXVII. A BAD DAY FOR MR. MCCRACKEN.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. CONCLUSION.
Язык
Английский
Год издания
2014-02-26
Темы
Orphans -- Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Bildungsromans; Runaway children -- Juvenile fiction; Inheritance and succession -- Juvenile fiction; Youth -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Success -- Juvenile fiction; Guardian and ward -- Juvenile fiction