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Title: The Mystery of Elias G. Roebuck, and other
stories.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe
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identification: ++++ British Library Alden, William Livingston;
1896. 344 p.; 8 . 012626.k.5.
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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
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Also By Mrs. R. M. Croker, E. W. Hornung, Charles John Cutcliffe
Wright Hyne, Rudyard Kipling, A. E. W. Mason, F. Frankfort Moore,
Max Pemberton, Morley Roberts, W. Pett Ridge, H. G. Wells, Percy
White, And Walter Wood.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
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for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE
BAFFLED BOY. A CCOKDING to the best scientific authorities -- the
small-boy becomes a boy at the age of sixteen. At that age he ought
to put away small- boyish things, and to put on the bashful
awkwardness of semi-intelligent boyhood. At all events, he ought to
know that his presence is not desired by young men who come to see
his sister. We do not expect this amount of intelligence in the
small-boy, and it is often necessary to bribe him with candy or to
persuade him with clubs before he will consent to treat his sister
with common humanity; but the sixteen-year-old boy usually
perceives when an area of courting, accompanied with gradually
increasing pressure in the region of the waist and marked
depression of the parlor gas, is about to set in, and thereupon
discreetly, even if sneer- ingly, withdraws. Master Henry T.
Johnson, of Warrensburg, Illinois, is a boy who has just reached
the period of boyhood, and who is remarkably clever in the
invention of traps. If you were to ask him to make you any variety
of trap, from a rat-trap to a mantrap, he would satisfy your demand
with promptness and skill. His father's premises, both in doors and
out, are infested with traps, and there is no style of animal
inhabiting Warrensburg that has not been caught in one or another
of these traps. On one morning, early in January, it is confidently
asserted that no less than two cats, a tramp, a small dog, six
chickens, and three small-boys were found in Mr. Johnson's yard in
the close embrace of a corresponding number of traps. The truth is
the boy has real mechanical genius, and it is a great pity that he
is totally lacking in modesty and a regard for the rights of
others. Last fall a young man who had met Master Johnson's sister
at a picnic and escorted her home, was seized wi...
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