Phaeton Rogers: A Novel of Boy Life

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PHAETON ROGERS.

AT WORK IN THE PRINTING-OFFICE
AT WORK IN THE PRINTING-OFFICE.





PHAETON ROGERS

A NOVEL OF BOY LIFE



BY

ROSSITER JOHNSON






ILLUSTRATED





NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
743 AND 745 BROADWAY
1881





COPYRIGHT BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1881





TROW'S
PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY,
201-213 East 12th Street,
NEW YORK.





CONTENTS.


CHAPTER I. A Morning Canter
CHAPTER II. Rapid Transit
CHAPTER III. Aunt Mercy
CHAPTER IV. Jack-in-the-Box
CHAPTER V. Jimmy the Rhymer
CHAPTER VI. The Price of Poetry
CHAPTER VII. Phaeton's Chariot
CHAPTER VIII. A Horizontal Balloon-Ascension
CHAPTER IX. The Art Deservative
CHAPTER X. Torments of Typography
CHAPTER XI. A Comical Comet
CHAPTER XII. A Literary Mystery
CHAPTER XIII. A Lyric Strain
CHAPTER XIV. An Alarm of Fire
CHAPTER XV. Running with the Machine
CHAPTER XVI. A New Fire-Extinguisher
CHAPTER XVII. How a Church Flew a Kite
CHAPTER XVIII. An Extra Fourth-of-July
CHAPTER XIX. A Conquest
CHAPTER XX. Rings, Scissors, and Boots
CHAPTER XXI. A Tea-Party
CHAPTER XXII. Old Shoes and Orange-Blossoms





LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


The Printing-Office

Rapid Transit by Cable

Rapid Transit by Car

The Boys Consult Jack-in-the-Box

Ned's Invention

"The Whole Caravan went Roaring down the Turnpike"

Ned's Plan for a Press

The Meddlesome Poet

The Frame of a Comet

"A Comet, Gentlemen—A Blazing Comet!"

"It Rose Like a Fountain"

A Broken Poem

"Jimmy Looked so Pale and Thin"

"Ned Looked Up into the Face of a Policeman"

Phaeton is Taken for a Burglar

"Jump Her, Boys! Jump Her!"

"This Must Be Put in a Safe Place"

Phaeton's Fire-Extinguisher

The Kite on the Steeple

Discharging the Arrow

Riding Home in the Barouche

How the Chair was Mended

Taking Home the Chairs

The Boys Run the Red Rover

Bridal Favors




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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