Christian life -- Juvenile fiction
It was a bright February morning. The sun was warm, so that the piles of snow in the streets were in a perfect condition for snow-balling, much to the satisfaction of a medium-sized boy of thirteen who had just come out of the house and was standing on his doorsteps, drawing o...
It was a bright February morning. The sun was warm, so that the piles of snow in the streets were in a perfect condition for snow-balling, much to the satisfaction of a medium-s...
2. CHAPTER II.As soon as Dubsy Perkins felt all right again, Jack and he left Bill French’s and went home to their dinners. Jack lived alone with his mother; he was her only child. Her husban...
3. CHAPTER III.“I guess they gave it to you, then,” replied Hannah, whose sympathies in the matter of snow-ball fights were not, perhaps, wholly on the side of her charge, as her home was in t...
4. CHAPTER IV.Mrs. Hall’s reflections concerning Jack were interrupted by the sound of the door-bell. A moment later Hannah ushered in a no less formidable personage than Mr. Bacon. A call at...
5. CHAPTER V.Utopia School takes its name from the small town adjoining, to reach which Jack had to change cars and run twenty odd miles on a country branch after traveling several hours on...
6. CHAPTER VI.How many of the fathers of the boys who are reading this story look back on their school days with any great degree of satisfaction as concerns the time spent in the schoolroom?...
7. CHAPTER VII.It has been, and still is, the fashion in certain circles to decry base-ball, and to hold up to the youth of the country the superiority of cricket, as a pastime. The arguments,...
8. CHAPTER VIII.The remaining weeks of the school year passed very rapidly with Jack. Indeed, before he had become accustomed to his new life they were gone. After Carlisle’s peroration the two...
9. CHAPTER IX.As a fourth-class boy Jack fairly felt his oats, and with justice, if one considers what a satisfactory status was meant by that term at Utopia. A fourth-classer had nothing to...
10. CHAPTER X.Three days later the whole school was called together directly after breakfast to hear a communication from Dr. Meredith. No one knew precisely what was in the wind, but all sor...
11. CHAPTER XI.With the beginning of the third-class year Jack entered upon the second half of his life at Utopia. One day early in the new term he dropped into the more spacious study to whic...
12. CHAPTER XII.A year has elapsed, and once more Founders’ day has come round at Utopia. The exercises of the graduating class and the prize-giving have taken place in the morning, and now eve...