# The boy and his gang Author: Puffer, Joseph Adams, 1872-1958 Genre: Category: Psychiatry/Psychology Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/57927 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+boy+and+his+gang+Puffer&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary We adults do not commonly understand boys. Half of us, to be sure, were boys ourselves; but when we became men and settled down to our work, we did not merely put away childish things--we went further and forgot them. To-day, we read a story of boy life and we say, “Why, yes. That’s just the way boys do. I used to do exactly that sort of thing myself.” But the next hour we have forgotten again, and the boy we were is once more a stranger. Boyville is so far removed, both from Delos and from Babylon, that we seldom think the thoughts of its inhabitants, nor see the world with the boys’ eyes. Only a few men are at home in both worlds,--Lindsay, George, some schoolmasters, an occasional fath... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-and-his-gang-57927/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-and-his-gang-57927/chapters/12/index.md) - [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-and-his-gang-57927/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-and-his-gang-57927/chapters/10/index.md) - [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-and-his-gang-57927/chapters/11/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-and-his-gang-57927/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-and-his-gang-57927/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-and-his-gang-57927/chapters/13/index.md) - [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-and-his-gang-57927/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-and-his-gang-57927/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-and-his-gang-57927/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-and-his-gang-57927/chapters/4/index.md) - [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-boy-and-his-gang-57927/chapters/1/index.md)