A Son of the City
by Herman Gastrell Seely
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About this eBook
- Author
- Seely, Herman Gastrell
- Title
- A son of the city : A story of boy life
- Credits
- E-text prepared by Peter Vachuska, Julia Miller, Mary Meehan, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
- Subject
- City and town life -- Juvenile fiction
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 20708
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20708
- Release Date
- February 28, 2007
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.A SON OF THE CITY — A Story of Boy Life
- 2.by Herman Gastrell Seely — Illustrations by Fred J. Arting — CHICAGO A. C. McClurg & Co. Copyright 1917 Published October, 1917 W. F. HALL PRINTING COMPANY, CHICAGO — To My Father THE COMPANION OF MANY A YOUTHFUL STROLL THROUGH CITY PARK AND SUBURBAN FIELD — "H'ist away," he ordered finally. "I'll shove under when he gets high enough."
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.A SON OF THE CITY
- 6.CHAPTER I — IN WHICH OUR HERO GOES FISHING
- 7.CHAPTER II — IN WHICH HE GOES TO SCHOOL — He imagines himself a hero. — "Who shot that rubber band?" — The "Tigers."
- 8.CHAPTER III — HE PLAYS A TRICK ON THE DOCTOR — "Milk toast!"
- 9.CHAPTER IV — IN WHICH A TERRIFIC BATTLE IS WAGED
- 10.CHAPTER V — HE COMPOSES A LOVE MISSIVE — Professor T. J. O'Reilley's — PUNCH AND JUDY SHOW — Three Stupendous, Sidesplitting Parts — NEIGHBORHOOD HALL, — Monday, October 4, at 4:15 p.m. — TWO HOURS OF AMUSING AND INSTRUCTIVE ENTERTAINMENT! — Admission only ten cents!
- 11.CHAPTER VI — IN WHICH WE LEARN THE SECRET CODE OF THE "TIGERS"
- 12.CHAPTER VII — HE GOES TO A HALLOWEEN PARTY — A second helping of ice cream.
- 13.CHAPTER VIII — WHEREIN HE RESOLVES TO GET MARRIED
- 14.CHAPTER IX — HE SAVES FOR "FOUR ROOMS FURNISHED COMPLETE" — It was Sid and Louise!
- 15.CHAPTER X — CONCERNS SANTA CLAUS MOSTLY — Christmas dreams.
- 16.CHAPTER XI — HE HAS A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS — "Washrags, washrags."
- 17.CHAPTER XII — IN WHICH THE PATH OF TRUE LOVE DOES NOT RUN SMOOTHLY — "Going to be good?"
- 18.CHAPTER XIII — HE CRUSHES AND HUMILIATES A RIVAL — Silencing his adversary.
- 19.CHAPTER XIV — HE BUYS VALENTINES — "Shooting the duck."
- 20.CHAPTER XV — THE SPRING BRINGS BASEBALL
- 21.CHAPTER XVI — MORE ABOUT "THE GREATEST GAME IN THE WORLD"
- 22.CHAPTER XVII — HE'S "THROUGH WITH GIRLS" — "Thirty-eight dollars and fifty-three cents."
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