Boy Life

About this eBook

Author

Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920

Title

Boy Life Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells

Credits

Produced by David Edwards, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.)

Language

English

LoC Class

PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres

Subject

Boys

Category

Text

eBook-No.

25383

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/25383

Release Date

May 7, 2008

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.BOY LIFE — STORIES AND READINGS SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF
2. 2.WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS — AND ARRANGED FOR SUPPLEMENTARY READING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS BY — PERCIVAL CHUBB — DIRECTOR OF ENGLISH IN THE ETHICAL CULTURE SCHOOL, NEW YORK — ILLUSTRATED
3. 3.BOY LIFE
4. 4.CONTENTS
5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
6. 6.INTRODUCTION
7. 7.I — ADVENTURES IN A BOY'S TOWN
8. 8.HOW PONY BAKER CAME PRETTY NEAR RUNNING OFF WITH A CIRCUS
9. 9.THE CIRCUS MAGICIAN
10. 10.JIM LEONARD'S HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPE
11. 11.II — LIFE IN A BOY'S TOWN
12. 12.THE TOWN
13. 13.EARLIEST MEMORIES
14. 14.HOME LIFE
15. 15.THE RIVER
16. 16.SWIMMING
17. 17.SKATING
18. 18.MANNERS AND CUSTOMS
19. 19.GIRLS
20. 20.MOTHERS
21. 21.A BROTHER
22. 22.A FRIEND
23. 23.III — GAMES AND PASTIMES
24. 24.MARBLES
25. 25.A MEAN TRICK
26. 26.TOPS
27. 27.KITES
28. 28.THE BUTLER GUARDS
29. 29.PETS
30. 30.INDIANS
31. 31.GUNS
32. 32.NUTTING
33. 33.THE FIRE-ENGINES
34. 34.IV — GLIMPSES OF THE LARGER WORLD
35. 35.THE TRAVELLING CIRCUS
36. 36.PASSING SHOWS
37. 37.THE THEATRE COMES TO TOWN
38. 38.THE WORLD OPENED BY BOOKS
39. 39.V — THE LAST OF A BOY'S TOWN
40. 40.THE LAST OF A BOY'S TOWN — THE END

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