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قراءة كتاب The Court of Boyville
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THE COURT OF BOYVILLE
By
William Allen White
Author Of The Real Issue, etc.
1898
Contents
- PROLOGUE
- THE MARTYRDOM OF "MEALY" JONES
- A RECENT CONFEDERATE VICTORY
- "WHILE THE EVIL DAYS COME NOT"
- JAMES SEARS: A NAUGHTY PERSON
- MUCH POMP AND SEVERAL CIRCUMSTANCES
- "THE HERB CALLED HEARTS-EASE"
Where is Boyville? By what track
May we trace our journey back;
Up what mountains, thro' what seas
By what meadow-lands and leas,
Must we travel to the bourne
Of the shady rows of corn
That lead down to the Willows
Where the day is always morn?
COURT OF BOYVILLE
Illustrated by ORSON LOWELL (with the exception of the first story, the illustrations for which are by GUSTAV VERBEEK).
ILLUSTRATIONS
"Say, boys, where's its bottle?"
The three boys were scuffling for the possession of a piece of rope
He saw Abe catch Jimmy and hold his head under water
He felt his father's finger under his collar and his own feet shambling
Mrs. Jones stooped to the floor and took her child by an arm
His feet hanging out of the back of the wagon that had held the coffin
He withdrew from the game and sat alone against the barn
As she turned to her turkey-slicing
The new preacher, for whom the party was made
"Dickey, Dickey, for gracious sake, keep still"
"Did you know my dad was a soldier?"
During the next two hours the boy wandered on the prairie
"Mary Pennington, aged two years, three months, and ten days"
Piggy went to get his flying hat
She stroked his hand and snuggled closer to him
Miss Morgan smiled happily at the clouds
Chased the little girls around the yard with it
She would not have invited Harold Jones to sit and sing with her during the opening hour
... The comradeship ... was beautiful to see
He could only snap chalk in a preoccupied way and listen to his Heart's Desire
Piggy was piling up the primary urchins in wiggling, squealing piles
He watched the teacher's finger crook a signal for the note to be brought forward
... fought boys who were three classes above him ... whipped groups of boys of assorted sizes
Over his mother's shoulders Piggy saw the hired girl giggle
Her son ate rapidly in silence
His cleanliness pleased his mother and she boasted of it to the mothers of other boys
A little maid in a black-and-red check
Piggy sat on the front porch, and reviewed the entire affair
It began when his Heart's Desire had fluttered into his autograph album
At this important bit of repartee
His heart was full of bitterness
Throwing sticks in the water to scare the fish
A crawler, a creeper, a toddler, a stumbler, and a sneaker
Mrs. Jones came out to take care of the butter
The sort of boy who would unsex himself by looking at a baby
Jimmy heard Mrs. Jones tell his little sister Annie that morning that she was no longer the baby
His father strutting around town ... bragging of the occurrence that filled the boy with shame
He jumped for the slanting boards with his bare feet, and his heart was glad
He sat on a log and slowly lifted up his foot, twisting his face into an agonized knot
"Spit, spit, spy, tell me whur my chicken is, er I'll hit ye in the eye"
"I'll pay for your chicken, I say. Now you keep away from me"
An irregular circumference that touched his ears and his chin and his hair
"Got anything here fit to eat?"
"What'd you want to take Annie's doll away from her for?"
She drew him down and kissed his cheek while he pecked at her lips
Piggy Pennington ... galloped his father's fat delivery horse up and down the alley
Mammoth Consolidated Shows (left)
Mammoth Consolidated Shows (right)
Oil made by hanging a bottle of angle-worms in the sun to fry