# Reminiscences of a Raconteur, Between the '40s and the '20s

Author: Ham, George H. (George Henry), 1847-1926

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/59962

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## Summary

Seventy Years Ago—My Early Days in Kingston and Whitby—Boyhood Friends—Unspared Rods—Better Spellers Then than Now—A Cub Reporter—Other Jobs I Didn’t Fill—Failure to Become a Merchant Prince—Put Off a First Train

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/6/index.md)
- [did. This theory was afterwards corroborated by a contractor who told a](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/reminiscences-of-a-raconteur-between-the-40s-and-the-20s-59962/chapters/12/index.md)