AUTHOR OF “SPARTACUS TO THE GLADIATORS,” “LION BEN,” “THE BOY FARMERS,” “THE YOUNG SHIP-BUILDERS,” “THE HARD-SCRABBLE,” THE “PLEASANT COVE STORIES,” THE “WHISPERING PINE SERIES,” ETC. There is a period in the life of all boys, when, in the homely phrase of Uncle Isaac, “they stand up edgeways.” At this critical period, as streams are tinged by the soils through which they filter, so their character for life is in a great measure shaped by their playmates, the examples set before them, and the associations amid which they grow up.…
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