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at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - 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 those faultless young
gentlemen who generally figure in narratives of this kind, and
partly because I really was not a cherub. I may truthfully say I
was an amiable, impulsive lad, blessed with fine digestive powers,
and no hypocrite. I didn't want to be an angel and with the angels
stand; I didn't think the missionary tracts presented to me by the
Rev. Wibird Hawkins were half so nice as Robinson Crusoe; and I
didn't send my little pocket-money to the natives of the Feejee
Islands, but spent it royally in peppermint-drops and taffy candy.
In short, I was a real human boy, such as you may meet anywhere in
New England, and no more like the impossible boy in a storybook
than a sound orange is like one that has been sucked dry. But let
us begin at the beginning.
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