The Battery and the Boiler
Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
Somewhere about the middle of this nineteenth century, a baby boy was born on the raging sea in the midst of a howling tempest. That boy was the hero of this tale.
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Category: Author:Robert Michael Ballantyne
Somewhere about the middle of this nineteenth century, a baby boy was born on the raging sea in the midst of a howling tempest. That boy was the hero of this tale.
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Category: Author:novel
“Do you see that boy sitting on the curbstone over the way? Well, he’s been there for the last half hour, and I’d just like to know what he’s up to. Run over, Charley, and ask him what he wants.”
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Category: Author:novel
Whar\'s Hiram, Het?\' Deacon Zephaniah Winthrop asked of his wife, tartly. \'Pears to me that boy\'s allus off somewhar, whenever he\'s wanted to do anything. Can\'t git along without him, any way, when we\'ve got to weed the spring peppermint. Whar\'s he off, I say, Mehitabel?\'
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Category: Author:novel
A few years ago, when my first story saw the light, a little fellow, a stranger to me then, but who has since proved himself the truest of friends, wrote me a most welcome letter. He said, among other things: “I have read the book five times through. My nurse, Lily Jones, read the book to me twice, my mamma read the book to me once, an...
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Category: Author:Thomas Bailey Aldrich
This is the story of a bad boy. Well, not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy; and I ought to know, for I am, or rather I was, that boy myself. Lest the title should mislead the reader, I hasten to assure him here that I have no dark confessions to make. I call my story the story of a bad boy, partly to distinguish myself from...
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