Boy Life / Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells
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HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS NEW YORK AND LONDON MCMIX
Stories and Readings Selected from the Works of William Dean Howells, and Arranged by Percival Chubb, Director of English in the Ethical Culture School, New York.
The literary culture which we are trying to give our boys and girls is not sufficiently contemporaneous, and it is not sufficiently national and American....
Among the living writers there is no one whose work has a more distinctively American savor than that of William Dean Howells.... The juvenile books of Mr. Howells' contain some of the very best pages ever written for the enjoyment of young people. —Percival Chubb.
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HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK
Copyright, 1909, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
Published September, 1909.
William Dean Howells
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BOY LIFE
STORIES AND READINGS SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
PERCIVAL CHUBB
HARPER'S MODERN SERIES
OF SUPPLEMENTARY READERS FOR THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
BOY LIFE
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTION
I
ADVENTURES IN A BOY'S TOWN
HOW PONY BAKER CAME PRETTY NEAR RUNNING OFF WITH A CIRCUS
THE CIRCUS MAGICIAN
JIM LEONARD'S HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPE
II
LIFE IN A BOY'S TOWN
THE TOWN
EARLIEST MEMORIES
HOME LIFE
THE RIVER
SWIMMING
SKATING
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
GIRLS
MOTHERS
A BROTHER
A FRIEND
III
GAMES AND PASTIMES
MARBLES
A MEAN TRICK
TOPS
KITES
THE BUTLER GUARDS
PETS
INDIANS
GUNS
NUTTING
THE FIRE-ENGINES
IV
GLIMPSES OF THE LARGER WORLD
THE TRAVELLING CIRCUS
PASSING SHOWS
THE THEATRE COMES TO TOWN
THE WORLD OPENED BY BOOKS
V
THE LAST OF A BOY'S TOWN
THE LAST OF A BOY'S TOWN
THE END