PREFACE.

CONTENTS. CHAPTER I.

ANECDOTES FOR BOYS.

CHAPTER I. THE BOY MAKES THE MAN.

CHAPTER II. FILIAL PIETY.

CHAPTER III. SOCIAL VIRTUES AND VICES. Section I. Brotherly Affection. Sergeant Glanville. C

CHAPTER IV. BAD COMPANY AND BAD HABITS.

CHAPTER V. INDUSTRY, LABOR, and c.

CHAPTER VI. TRUE GREATNESS. True Greatness does not consist in feeling above others . F

CHAPTER VII. ADVANTAGES OF HONESTY. Colbert. G

CHAPTER VIII. PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE. Section I. Reading . H

CHAPTER IX. MISCELLANEOUS SUBJECTS. Section I. Fickleness . Hunting Squirrels . J

CHAPTER X. RELIGION. Section I. Religious Knowledge . the will. K

ANECDOTES
FOR
BOYS.

ENTERTAINING NARRATIVES AND ANECDOTES,
ILLUSTRATIVE OF PRINCIPLES AND CHARACTER.

BY

HARVEY NEWCOMB,
AUTHOR OF “HOW TO BE A LADY,” “HOW TO BE A MAN,” ETC.


SIXTH THOUSAND.


BOSTON:
GOULD AND LINCOLN,
59 washington street.
1851.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1847,
By Gould, Kendall and Lincoln,
In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.


STEREOTYPED BY S. N. DICKINSON, BOSTON.