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Whistler; or, The Manly Boy

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By Walter Aimwell
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The narrative follows Whistler, a young boy who spends a country vacation with relatives and learns steady virtues through ordinary incidents. Daily tasks, outdoor excursions, and small crises — including accidents, encounters with local characters, and lessons about plants and animals — reveal habits of courage, self-control, industry, and compassion. Family guidance, practical farm work, and schoolroom study are mixed with clear explanations of natural history and simple crafts to teach by example rather than by abstract precepts. Episodes emphasize how consistent effort, considerate conduct, and moral reflection shape a boy toward responsible adulthood.

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“PRECEPTS MAY LEAD, BUT EXAMPLES DRAW.”

“The Aimwell Stories” are designed to portray some of the leading phases of juvenile character, and to point out their tendencies to future good and evil. This they undertake to do, by describing the quiet, natural scenes and incidents of every-day life, in city and country, at home and abroad, at school and upon the play-ground, rather than by resorting to romantic adventures and startling effects. While their main object is to persuade the young to lay well the foundations of their characters, to win them to the ways of virtue, and to incite them to good deeds and noble aims, the attempt is also made to mingle amusing, curious, and useful information with the moral lessons conveyed. It is hoped that the volumes will thus be made attractive and agreeable, as well as instructive, to the youthful reader.

Each volume of the “Aimwell Stories” will be complete and independent of itself, although a connecting thread will run through the whole series. The order of the volumes, so far as completed, is as follows:

I. Oscar; or, the Boy who had his Own Way.
II. Clinton; or, Boy-Life in the Country.
III. Ella; or, Turning over a New Leaf.
IV. Whistler; or, the Manly Boy.
V. Marcus; or, the Boy-Tamer. (In Preparation.)