Swatty: A Story of Real Boys
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About This Book
Nine-year-old "Swatty" Schwarz, narrator Georgie, and their timid friend "Bony" are growing up just yards from the Mississippi River in 1870s Riverbank, Iowa. Swatty is a born leader of boys and full of ideas for fun and moneymaking. Together, they fish, swim, row skiffs, run afoul of the town bully, conspire to foil their nasty schoolteacher, act out the plots of their favorite dime novels, and promote a romance between Swatty's older brother and Georgie's older sister. These connected stories were originally published in magazine form between 1915 and 1918 and are based loosely on their auth...
Chapters (19)
- SWATTY A Story of Real Boys
- HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 1920
- SWATTY
- A STORY OF REAL BOYS
- I. THE BIG RIVER
- II. MAMIE'S FATHER
- III. THE “DIVORCE”
- IV. THE STUMP
- THE STUMP
- V. SCRATCH-CAT
- VI. THE CARDINAL'S SIGNET RING
- VII. THE HAUNTED HOUSE
- VIII. WASTED EFFORT
- IX. THE MURDERERS
- X. SLIM FINNEGAN
- XI. “THIEF! THIEF!”
- XII. THE RED AVENGERS
- XIII. THE ICE GOES OUT
- XIV. HERB BESTIRS
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