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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ... THE POLITICAL EDUCATION OF MR. BALDWIN If Hickey had not been woefully weak in mathematics the famous Fed. and anti-Fed, riots would probably never have happened. But as revolutions turn on minor axes, Hickey, who could follow a football like a hound, could not for the life of him trace X, the unknown factor, through the hedges of the simplest equation. It was, therefore, with feelings of the acutest interest that he waited, in the upper corridor of Memorial Hall, on the opening morning of the spring term, for the appearance of Mr. Baldwin, the new recruit to the mathematics department. The Hall was choked with old boys chattering over the doings of the Easter vacation, calling back and forth, punching one another affectionately or critically exauiining the returning stragglers. " His name is Ernest Garrison Baldwin," said the Gutter Pup. " Just graduated, full of honours and that sort of thing." " He ought to be easy," said Crazy Opdyke, hopefully. " These mathematical sharks are always fancy markers," interposed Macnooder. " If I'm stuck in the first row," said the Egghead gloomily, " it's all up--I never could do anything with figures." " If we want short lessons," said Hickey, waking out of his reverie, " we've all got to flunk in the beginning." At this Machiavellian analysis there was a chorus of assent. " Sure." " Rickey's the boy! " " Red Dog and Poler Fox have got to be kept down." " We're not pack-horses." " Say, is he green ? " " Sure--never taught before." " Cheese it--he's coming." The group stood aside, intent on the arrival of the new adversary. They saw a stiff young man, already bald, with a set, affable manner and a pervading smile of cordiality, who entered the classroom with a confident step, after a nodded: " Ah, ...
(...) "'He forged a thunderbolt and hurled it at what? At the proudest blood in Eu- rope, the Spaniard, and sent him home conquered; at the most warlike blood in Europe, the French'".... Shrimp Davis, on the platform, piped forth the familiar periods of Phillips's oration on Toussaint L'Ouverture, while the Third Form in declamation, dis- posed to sleep, stirred fitfully on one another's shoulders, resenting the adolescent squeak that rendered perfect rest impossible. Pa Dater followed from the last bench, marking the position of the heels, the adjustment of the gesture to the phrase, and the rise and fall of the voice with patient enthusiasm, undis- mayed by the memory of the thousand Toussaints who had passed, or the cer- tainty of the thousands who were to come.... (...)
This volume contains the five (5) novels by american writer Owen Johnson, that make the extraordinary collection The "Lawrenceville Stories" (The Prodigious Hickey, The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Skippy Bedelle, The Hummingbird). The novels, set in the well-known prep school, invite comparison with Kipling's Stalky and Co., and have been favorites of countless generations of youngsters. They provide a window into the of a nineteenth century American boarding school, proving beyond doubt that boys will be boys regardless of the era in which they become men. The author, who attended that school, writes masterfully on the subject of male camaraderie and what life was actually like among the young boys. Filled with characters with clever nicknames like, The Prodigious Hickey, The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Skippy Bedelle, The Hummingbird, Hungry Smeed and countless others, Johnson gives us tales of adventure played out against a backdrop of a sophisticated world long lost. THE NOVELS INCLUDED ARE: The Eternal Boy (The Prodigious Hickey ) The Humming Bird The Tennessee Shad The Varmint Skippy Bedelle
Owen McMahon Johnson (1878-1952) was an American writer best remembered for The "Lawrenceville Stories" -- The Prodigious Hickey, The Tennessee Shad, The Varmint, Skippy Bedelle, and The Hummingbird -- set in the well-known Lawrenceville prep school.
For generations, the unforgettable characters of Owen Johnson's The Lawrencevelle Stories have been delighting American readers with their antic humor and outrageous behavior. Hungry Smeed, the Uncooked Beefsteak, the Tennessee Shad, Doc Macnooder, the Gutter Pup, and Dink Stover: Johnson has peopled the Lawrenceville School with some of the most lovable adventurers and misadventurerers ever to pass through the gates of a preparatory school -- Publisher.