Being a Boy

This volume was first published over twenty years ago. If any of the boys described in it were real, they have long since grown up, got married, gone West, become selectmen or sheriffs, gone to Congress, invented an electric churn, become editors or preachers or commercial travelers, written a book, served a term as consul to a country the language of which they did not know, or plodded along on a farm, cultivating rheumatism and acquiring invaluable knowledge of the most fickle weather known in a region which has all the fascination and all the power of being disagreeable belonging to the most accomplished coquette in the world.