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Title: The Making of Bobby Burnit
Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man

Author: George Randolph Chester

Illustrator: James Montgomery Flagg
F. R. Gruger

Release Date: August 30, 2008 [EBook #26485]

Language: English

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THE MAKING OF BOBBY BURNIT

[Illustration: I'm in for some of the severest drubbings of my life]

THE MAKING OF BOBBY BURNIT

Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man

_By GEORGE RANDOLPH CHESTER_

AUTHOR OF

"Get Rich Quick Wallingford," "The Cash Intrigue," Etc.

WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS

BY JAMES MONTGOMERY FLAGG AND F. R. GRUGER

_A. L. BURT COMPANY_
_Publishers New York_

COPYRIGHT 1908

THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

COPYRIGHT 1909

THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

JUNE

DEDICATION

To the Handicapped Sons of Able
Fathers, and the Handicapped
Fathers of Able Sons,
with Sympathy for
each, and a
Smile for
both

THE MAKING OF BOBBY BURNIT

CHAPTER I

BOBBY MAKES SOME IMPORTANT PREPARATIONS FOR A COMMERCIAL LIFE

"I am profoundly convinced that my son is a fool," read the will of
old John Burnit. "I am, however, also convinced that I allowed him to
become so by too much absorption in my own affairs and too little in
his, and, therefore, his being a fool is hereditary; consequently, I
feel it my