Boy Life. William Dean Howells
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William Dean Howells
Boy Life
Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066131838
Table of Contents
HOW PONY BAKER CAME PRETTY NEAR RUNNING OFF WITH A CIRCUS
JIM LEONARD'S HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPE
ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| KITE-TIME | Frontispiece |
| HE BEGAN BEING COLD AND STIFF WITH HER THE VERY NEXT MORNING | 5 |
| THE FIRST LOCK | 43 |
| THE BUTLER GUARDS | 105 |
| ALL AT ONCE THERE THE INDIANS WERE | 127 |
| NUTTING | 141 |
INTRODUCTION
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