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Title: Charles Duran
Or, The Career of a Bad Boy

Author: The Author of The Waldos

Release Date: March 30, 2005 [EBook #15507]

Language: English

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CHARLES DURAN:
OR,
THE CAREER OF A BAD BOY.

BY THE AUTHOR OF
"THE WALDOS."

[Illustration: CHARLES ON HIS DEATH BED.--SEE PAGE 52.]

New-York:
PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PORTER,
SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, 200 MULBERRY-STREET.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by
LANE & SCOTT,
in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern
District of New-York.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I

THE HOMESTEAD.

The house--Court-yards--Garden--The well--"Oaken bucket"--The
fields--Flocks--River--Fish--Forest--Church

CHAPTER II.

THE BIRTH OF CHARLES.

Effects on the parents--The Joneses--Parental expectations--An instance
of disappointment--Ann's prophecy

CHAPTER III.

HIS EARLY TRAINING.

Opinions--The Durans indulgent--The sulks--They produce blindness--"I
will"--"I won't"--Faults of parents

CHAPTER IV.

CHARLES DURAN AT SCHOOL.

Good children at home are good in school--Conduct--Inattention to
studies--Unkind to his school-mates--Samuel Howard--Helen Fay--John and
Louisa--Severe whipping--Mr. Spicer--Charles expelled from school

CHAPTER V.

CHARLES'S HABITS.

Good habits--Proverbs of the Rabbins--Charles not
improved--Idleness--Fishing and hunting--No idle boy can be
good--Shooting--Roughness of manners--One vice is followed by
another--Lying--Sabbath-breaking--Intemperance--A standard of wickedness

CHAPTER VI.

THE FATAL NIGHT.

Village balls--Description--Culpability of parents--Demand for
money--Fit--House stoned--Windows broken in--Mr. Duran with the
bag--Charles's wrath appeased--The ball--Charles intoxicated--Falls to
the floor--Brought home speechless--Laid upon his death-bed

CHAPTER VII

SICK