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Title: A Son of the City
A Story of Boy Life
Author: Herman Gastrell Seely
Release Date: February 28, 2007 [eBook #20708]
Language: English
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A SON OF THE CITY
A Story of Boy Life
by
HERMAN GASTRELL SEELY
Illustrations by Fred J. Arting
Chicago
A. C. McClurg & Co.
Copyright 1917
Published October, 1917
W. F. Hall Printing Company, Chicago
To My Father
THE COMPANION OF MANY A YOUTHFUL STROLL THROUGH CITY PARK AND SUBURBAN
FIELD
[Illustration: _"H'ist away," he ordered finally. "I'll shove under when
he gets high enough."_]
CONTENTS
I. In Which Our Hero Goes Fishing
II. In Which He Goes to School
III. He Plays a Trick on the Doctor
IV. In Which a Terrific Battle Is Waged
V. He Composes a Love Missive
VI. In Which We Learn the Secret Code of the "Tigers"
VII. He Goes to a Halloween Party
VIII. Wherein He Resolves to Get Married
IX. He Saves for "Four Rooms Furnished Complete"
X. Concerns Santa Claus Mostly
XI. He Has a Very Happy Christmas
XII. In Which the Path of True Love Does Not Run Smoothly
XIII. He Crushes and Humiliates a Rival
XIV. He Buys Valentines
XV. The Spring Brings Baseball
XVI. More About "The Greatest Game in the World"
XVII. He's "Through With Girls"
A SON OF THE CITY
CHAPTER I
IN WHICH OUR HERO GOES FISHING
Startled from a sound sleep, he fumble
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