Title: The Mystery of Elias G. Roebuck, and other stories.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy, and works of satire. ++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library Alden, William Livingston; 1896. 344 p.; 8 . 012626.k.5.

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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 hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books 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...