Being a Boy - Couverture souple

Warner, Charles Dudley

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 142180414X ISBN 13 : 9781421804149

Editeur : 1st World Library - Literary Society, 2005

Synopsis

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - One of the best things in the world to be is a boy; it requires no experience, though it needs some practice to be a good one. The disadvantage of the position is that it does not last long enough; it is soon over; just as you get used to being a boy, you have to be something else, with a good deal more work to do and not half so much fun. And yet every boy is anxious to be a man, and is very uneasy with the restrictions that are put upon him as a boy. Good fun as it is to yoke up the calves and play work, there is not a boy on a farm but would rather drive a yoke of oxen at real work. What a glorious feeling it is, indeed, when a boy is for the first time given the long whip and permitted to drive the oxen, walking by their side, swinging the long lash, and shouting "Gee, Buck!" "Haw, Golden!" "Whoa, Bright!" and all the rest of that remarkable language, until he is red in the face, and all the neighbors for half a mile are aware that something unusual is going on. If I were a boy, I am not sure but I would rather drive the oxen than have a birthday. The proudest day of my life was one day when I rode on the neap of the cart, and drove the oxen, all alone, with a load of apples to the cider-mill.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Fishing on the Swimming Rock (see page 169) Frontispiece. Being a Boy 2T he Farm Oxen 4A tthe Pasture Bars 8I nthe Cattle Pasture 10 After a Crows Nest 16 AS tring of Speckled Trout .. ao Watching for Sunset 28 Riding Bareback 32 Turning the Grindstone 36 Snaring Suckers 44 Picking up Potatoes 48 Leap-frog at Recess 50 Pounding off Shucks 58 Running on the Stone Wall .. .74 Coasting 82 In School 88 A Remote Farmhouse .92 Going Home with Cynthia no AY oung Sugar Maker .,, 118 Watching the Kettles ..
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Biographie de l'auteur

Charles Dudley Warner (September 12, 1829 – October 20, 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: 1st World Library - Literary Society
• Date d'édition: 2005
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 142180414X
• ISBN 13: 9781421804149
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 128
• Éditeur: 1st World Library, 1stworld Library
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible