Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4064066131838

Table of 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

ILLUSTRATIONS

       Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

       Table of Contents

      There are two conspicuous faults in the literary culture which we are trying to give to our boys and girls in our elementary and secondary schools: it is not sufficiently contemporaneous, and it is not sufficiently national and American. Hence it lacks vitality and actuality. So little of