Boy Life / Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells
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Chapters (206)
- BOY LIFE
- STORIES AND READINGS SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF
- 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
- HARPER'S MODERN SERIES
- OF SUPPLEMENTARY READERS FOR THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
- Each, Illustrated, 16mo, 50 Cents School.
- 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
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