Bert Lloyd's Boyhood: A Story from Nova Scotia

The narrative follows a lively Halifax boy whose childhood and adolescence are recounted through summer visits to relatives, school experiences, pranks, and moral tests. Recollections move from household scenes and neighborhood adventures to country life, coach rides, and youthful mischief that leads to punishments and small triumphs. School chapters detail friendships, rivalries, hazing and reforms such as abolishing hoisting, academic contests, sports, swimming lessons, and affection for ponies. Throughout, family affection, formative influences, religious and community activities, and the boy's gradual maturation into young adulthood are traced in episodic, anecdotal chapters.