by
Charles Dudley Warner

With Illustrations
from Photographs
by Clifton Johnson

COPYRIGHT, 1877, BY JAMES R. OSGOOD AND CO.
1897, BY HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND CO.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS

PAGE
Preface to the Illustrated Edition[vii]
I.Being a Boy[1]
II.The Boy as a Farmer[8]
III.The Delights of Farming[15]
IV.No Farming without a Boy[22]
V.The Boy's Sunday[30]
VI.The Grindstone of Life[38]
VII.Fiction and Sentiment[47]
VIII.The Coming of Thanksgiving[56]
IX.The Season of Pumpkin-Pie[65]
X.First Experience of the World[73]
XI.Home Inventions[82]
XII.The Lonely Farm-House[92]
XIII.John's First Party[101]
XIV.The Sugar Camp[113]
XV.The Heart of New England[123]
XVI.John's Revival[134]
XVII.War[150]
XVIII.Country Scenes[164]
XIX.A Contrast to the New England Boy[179]