- A Fearful Responsibility
- At the Sign of the Savage
- Tonelli's Marriage
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THE FLIGHT
OF PONY BAKERA Boy’s Town Story
By
W.D. HOWELLS
author of
“A BOY’S TOWN”
“CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY” ETC.ILLUSTRATED
Contents
CHAP. PAGE I Pony’s Mother, and why he had a Right to run off 3 II The Right that Pony had to run off, from the way his Father acted 15 III Jim Leonard’s Hair-breadth Escape 32 IV The Scrape that Jim Leonard got the Boys into 52 V About running away to the Indian Reservation on a Canal-boat, and how the Plan failed 77 VI How the Indians came to the Boy’s Town and Jim Leonard acted the Coward 89 VII How Frank Baker spent the Fourth at Pawpaw Bottom, and saw the Fourth of July Boy 105 VIII How Pony Baker came pretty near running off with a Circus 141 IX How Pony did not quite get off with the Circus 152 X The Adventures that Pony’s cousin, Frank Baker, had with a Pocketful of Money 165 XI How Jim Leonard planned for Pony Baker to run off on a Raft 192 XII How Jim Leonard backed out, and Pony had to give it up 208
Illustrations
“ALL THE FELLOWS CAME ROUND AND ASKED HIM WHAT HE WAS GOING TO DO NOW” Frontispiece
“BEING DRESSED SO WELL WAS ONE OF THE WORST THINGS THAT WAS DONE TO HIM BY HIS MOTHER”4
“‘I’LL LEARN THAT LIMB TO SLEEP IN A COW-BARN!’” 50
“REAL INDIANS, IN BLANKETS, WITH BOWS AND ARROWS” 90
“VERY SMILING-LOOKING” 124
“HE BEGAN BEING COLD AND STIFF WITH HER THE VERY NEXT MORNING” 144
“FRANK BAKER WAS ONE OF THOSE FELLOWS THAT EVERY MOTHER WOULD FEEL HER BOY WAS SAFE WITH” 166
“‘WHY, YOU AIN’T AFRAID, ARE YOU, PONY?’” 204
THE COAST OF BOHEMIA
By
W. D. HowellsBiographical Edition
1899
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter I. XXI. II. XXII. III. XXIII. IV. XXIV. V. XXV. VI. XXVI. VII. XXVII. VIII. XXVIII. IX. XXIX. X. XXX. XI. XXXI. XII. XXXII. XIII. XXXIII. XIV. XXXIV. XV. XXXV. XVI. XXXVI. XVII. XXXVII. XVIII. XXXVIII. XIX. XXXIX. XX. CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY
AND OTHER STORIES
TOLD FOR CHILDREN
By W. D. Howells
CONTENTS
CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY 3 TURKEYS TURNING THE TABLES 25 THE PONY ENGINE AND THE PACIFIC EXPRESS 51 THE PUMPKIN-GLORY 71 BUTTERFLYFLUTTERBY AND FLUTTERBYBUTTERFLY 111
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE “Having Bonfires in the Back Yard of the Palace” Frontispiece “The Old Gobbler ‘First Premium’ said They were Going to Turn the Tables Now” 35 Two Little Pumpkin Seeds 75 Took the First Premium at the County Fair 83 “‘Here's that little fool pumpkin,’ said the farmer” 85 “Caught His Trousers on a Shingle-nail, and Stuck” 93 “‘My sakes! it's comin' to life!’” 103 Tail-piece 107 “‘Fix dusters! Make ready! Aim! Dust!’” 121 “The General-in-Chief used to go behind the Church and Cry” 125 “The Young Khan and Khant entered the Kingdom with a Magnificent Retinue” 131 “She was Going to Take the Case into Her own Hands” 135 “The Imam put His Head to the Floor” 139 “They began to scream, ‘Oh, the cow! the cow!’” 143 BOY LIFE
STORIES AND READINGS SELECTED FROM THE WORKS OF
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
AND ARRANGED FOR SUPPLEMENTARY
READING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS BYPERCIVAL CHUBB
DIRECTOR OF ENGLISH IN THE
ETHICAL CULTURE SCHOOL, NEW YORKILLUSTRATED
CONTENTS
PAGE Introduction ix I. Adventures in a Boy's Town HOW PONY BAKER CAME PRETTY NEAR RUNNING OFF WITH A CIRCUS 3 THE CIRCUS MAGICIAN 13 JIM LEONARD'S HAIR-BREADTH ESCAPE 23 II. Life in a Boy's Town THE TOWN 41 EARLIEST MEMORIES 45 HOME LIFE 47 THE RIVER 51 SWIMMING 55 SKATING 61 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS 64 GIRLS 68 MOTHERS 69 A BROTHER 73 A FRIEND 79 III. Games and Pastimes MARBLES 89 RACES 91 A MEAN TRICK 93 TOPS 96 KITES 98 THE BUTLER GUARDS 103 PETS 108 INDIANS 124 GUNS 129 NUTTING 138 THE FIRE-ENGINES 145 IV. Glimpses of the Larger World THE TRAVELLING CIRCUS 151 PASSING SHOWS 163 THE THEATRE COMES TO TOWN 168 THE WORLD OPENED BY BOOKS 171 V. The Last of a Boy's Town 183
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE KITE-TIME Frontispiece HE BEGAN BEING COLD AND STIFF WITH HER THE VERY NEXT MORNING 5 THE FIRST LOCK 43 THE BUTLER GUARDS 105 ALL AT ONCE THERE THE INDIANS WERE 127 NUTTING 141
A LIKELY STORY
Farce
BY
W. D. HOWELLS
ILLUSTRATED
CONTENTS
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MR. AND MRS. WILLIS CAMPBELL 7
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MR. WELLING; MR. CAMPBELL 29
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MRS. CAMPBELL; MR. WELLING; MR. CAMPBELL 34
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JANE; MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 39
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MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 41
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JANE; MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 43
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MRS. CAMPBELL; WELLING; CAMPBELL 44
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MISS RICE, MISS GREENWAY, and the OTHERS 48
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MISS GREENWAY; MR. WELLING 50
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MISS RICE; then MR. and MRS. CAMPBELL, and the OTHERS 53
ILLUSTRATIONS
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"THE MOST EXCITING PART OF IT" Frontispiece
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MR. WELLING EXPLAINS Facing page 52
A BOY'S TOWN
DESCRIBED FOR "HARPER'S YOUNG PEOPLE"BY
W. D. HOWELLS
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER PAGE I. Earliest Experiences 1 II. Home and Kindred 10 III. The River 24 IV. The Canal and its Basin 36 V. The Hydraulic and its Reservoirs.—Old River 45 VI. Schools and Teachers 53 VII. Manners and Customs 67 VIII. Plays and Pastimes 80 IX. Circuses and Shows 93 X. Highdays and Holidays 110 XI. Musters and Elections 121 XII. Pets 133 XIII. Guns and Gunning 148 XIV. Foraging 161 XV. My Boy 171 XVI. Other Boys 183 XVII. Fantasies and Superstitions 197 XVIII. The Nature of Boys 205 XIX. The Town Itself 215 XX. Traits and Characters 228 XXI. Last Days 237
ILLUSTRATIONS.
"ONE DAY HE CAME UP TO MY BOY WHERE HE SAT FISHING"Frontispiece. THE "FIRST LOCK"Facing p. 2 "THE PASSENGER IS A ONE-LEGGED MAN"" 8 "RUN, RUN! THE CONSTABLE WILL CATCH YOU!"" 18 "HE TOLD THEM THAT HE HAD GOT THEM NOW"" 44 "THAT HONOR WAS RESERVED FOR MEN OF THE KIND I HAVE MENTIONED"" 50 "A CITIZEN'S CHARACTER FOR CLEVERNESS OR MEANNESS WAS FIXED BY HIS WALKING ROUND OR OVER THE RINGS"" 82 KITE TIME" 92 "THE BOYS BEGAN TO CELEBRATE IT WITH GUNS AND PISTOLS"" 110 THE "BUTLER GUARDS"" 122 "ALL AT ONCE THERE THE INDIANS WERE"" 150 FORAGING" 168 "THE BEACON OF DEATH "" 180 "HE ALWAYS RAN BY THE PLACE AS FAST AS HE COULD"" 198 "THE ARTIST SEEMED SATISFIED HIMSELF"" 220 "MY BOY REMEMBERS COMING FROM CINCINNATI IN THE STAGE"" 224
IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS
BY
W.D. HOWELLS
1910
CONTENTS
IMAGINARY INTERVIEWS
- The Restoration of the Easy Chair by Way of Introduction
- A Year of Spring and a Life of Youth
- Sclerosis of the Tastes
- The Practices and Precepts of Vaudeville
- Intimations of Italian Opera
- The Superiority of Our Inferiors
- Unimportance of Women in Republics
- Having Just Got Home
- New York To the Home-comer's Eye
- Cheapness of the Costliest City on Earth
- Ways and Means of Living in New York
- The Quality of Boston and the Quantity of New York
- The Whirl of Life in Our First Circles
- The Magazine Muse
- Comparative Luxuries of Travel
- Qualities Without Defects
- A Wasted Opportunity
- A Niece's Literary Advice To Her Uncle
- A Search for Celebrity
- Practical Immortality on Earth
- Around a Rainy-day Fire
- The Advantages of Quotational Criticism
- Reading for a Grandfather
- Some Moments With the Muse
- A Normal Hero and Heroine Out of Work
OTHER ESSAYS
- Autumn in the Country and City
- Personal and Epistolary Addresses
- Dressing for Hotel Dinner
- The Counsel of Literary Age to Literary Youth
- The Unsatisfactoriness of Unfriendly Criticism
- The Fickleness of Age
- The Renewal of Inspiration
- The Summer Sojourn of Florindo and Lindora
- To Have the Honor of Meeting
- A Day at Bronx Park
ILLUSTRATIONS
AT THE OPERA
FIFTH AVENUE AT THIRTY-FOURTH STREET
FIFTH AVENUE FROM THE TOP OF A MOTOR-BUS
CHARLES EMBANKMENT, BELOW HARVARD BRIDGE
THE MALL, CENTRAL PARK
BROADWAY AT NIGHT
ELECTION-NIGHT CROWDS
ZOÖLOGICAL GARDENS, BRONX PARK
THE DAUGHTER OF THE STORAGE
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
THE DAUGHTER
OF THE STORAGEAND OTHER THINGS
IN PROSE AND VERSE
W. D. HOWELLS
HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS
NEW YORK AND LONDON
CONTENTS
THE QUALITY OF MERCY
A NOVEL
BY W. D. HOWELLS
1892
CONTENTS
PART FIRST.
I.
II.
III.
IV.
V.
VI.
VII.
VIII.
IX.
X.
XI.
XII.
XIII.
XIV.
XV.
XVI.
XVII.
XVIII.
XIX.
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XXI.
XXII.
XXIII.
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PART SECOND.
I.
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XII.
XIII.
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PART THIRD.
I.
II.
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VII.
VIII.
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XI.
BY WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS.
BY CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER.
BY CONSTANCE F. WOOLSON.
BY MARY E. WILKINS.
BY LEW. WALLACE
A COUNTERFEIT
PRESENTMENTAND
THE PARLOUR CAR
BY
WILLIAM D. HOWELLS
CONTENTS
PAGE I. An Extraordinary Resemblance, 7 II. Distinctions and Differences, 61 III. Dissolving Views, 99 IV. Not at All Like, 141
THE PARLOUR CAR, a Farce, 191 YEARS OF MY YOUTH
BY
W. D. HOWELLS
WITH INTRODUCTION AND ILLUSTRATIONS
FROM PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN EXPRESSLY
FOR THIS BOOK BY CLIFTON JOHNSON
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Preface by the Illustrator
Illustrations
Chapters: I, II, III, IV.Some typographical errors have been corrected; a list follows the text. (etext transcriber's note)
ILLUSTRATIONS
The waterside at Martin's Ferry
The Ohio River at Wheeling, West Virginia
Hamilton, Ohio, the "Boy's Town" of Mr. Howells's youth
The Miami Canal at Hamilton
The now abandoned canal at Dayton as it appears on the borders of the city
The Little Miami River at Eureka Mills, twelve miles east of Dayton
Overlooking the island which the Howells family cultivated
The vicinity where Mr. Howells lived his "Year in a Log Cabin"
One of the last log houses to survive in the vicinity of Jefferson
The four-story office erected by Mr. Howells's father
The Ohio State House at Columbus viewed from High Street
The State House yard on the State Street side
Old-time dwellings on one of the Columbus streets that Mr. Howells used to frequent
The Medical College at Columbus
The quaint doorway of the Medical College through which Mr. Howells passed daily while he roomed in the building
Looking into the State House grounds toward the broad flight of steps before the west front of the building
MRS. FARRELL
A NOVEL BY
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
With an Introduction by
Mildred Howells
Chapter I II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, XIV, XV. MY YEAR IN A LOG CABIN
BY
A BIT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY
W. D. HOWELLSILLUSTRATED
I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII. THE RISE OF SILAS LAPHAM
by
William Dean Howells
CONTENTS
ITALIAN JOURNEYS
By W.D. Howells
1867 and 1895
CONTENTS
III.—THE PICTURESQUE, THE IMPROBABLE, AND THE PATHETIC IN FERRARA.
VI.—BY SEA FROM GENOA TO NAPLES.
VII.—CERTAIN THINGS IN NAPLES.
IX.—A HALF-HOUR AT HERCULANEUM.
XI.—THE PROTESTANT RAGGED SCHOOLS AT NAPLES.
A PILGRIMAGE TO PETRARCH'S HOUSE AT ARQUÀ.
V.—POSSAGNO, CANOVA'S BIRTHPLACE.
STOPPING AT VICENZA, VERONA, AND PARMA.
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About This Book
A collected edition assembling novels, short stories, essays, travel sketches, criticism, and juvenile pieces by a single author, emphasizing realist depiction of everyday life and social observation. The fiction covers family and small-town narratives, boyhood adventures, and moral sketches; essays and reviews offer literary and cultural commentary; travel writing conveys impressions of European cities and landscapes; and brief sketches provide humor and local color. Works are grouped for easy browsing and reproduce original tables of contents to reflect the range of genres and modes represented.