PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. A GOOD BEGINNING.
CHAPTER II. UPWARD AND ONWARD.
CHAPTER III. SATURDAY AFTERNOON.
CHAPTER IV. THE WILD CHERRIES
CHAPTER V. ATHLETIC SPORTS.
CHAPTER VI. A MISTAKE.
CHAPTER VII. PROSPECT HILL.
CHAPTER VIII. THE END OF SCHOOL-DAYS.
CHAPTER IX. OPENING THE SUBJECT.
CHAPTER X. THE NEW CALL.
CHAPTER XI. THE LOFTY STUDY.
CHAPTER XII. THE DEDICATION.
CHAPTER XIII. A SCHOOL SCENE.
CHAPTER XIV. TAKING SIDES.
CHAPTER XV. THREE IMPORTANT EVENTS.
CHAPTER XVI. FINDING A LOST OPPORTUNITY.
CHAPTER XVII. THE PURCHASE.
CHAPTER XVIII. THE DEBATING SOCIETY.
CHAPTER XIX. COMING AND GOING.
CHAPTER XX. GOSSIP.
CHAPTER XXI. GOING TO THE THEATRE.
CHAPTER XXII. THE DRAMATIC SOCIETY.
CHAPTER XXIII. THE SURPRISE.
CHAPTER XXIV. ANOTHER STEP.
CHAPTER XXV. EULOGY BY JOHN QUINCY ADAMS.
CHAPTER XXVI. THE TEMPERANCE SOCIETY.
CHAPTER XXVII. THE TEMPERANCE LECTURE.
CHAPTER XXVIII. SPEECH-MAKING.
CHAPTER XXIX. THE EARLY VICTIM
CHAPTER XXX THE END.
AUTHOR OF "THE POOR BOY AND MERCHANT PRINCE," "THE POOR GIRL
AND TRUE WOMAN," "FROM POOR-HOUSE TO PULPIT,"
"TALES FROM THE BIBLE," ETC., ETC.
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1862.
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