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Show tD AS A B BOOKS THAT I 1bat books had The real liars, conscious,i Dg th e t rut h 1. f must always be a minolt Boo k· d G an reen-their habits tend to hrin!! d h ,t a ore t em ex-a reformatory. It is tho the truth, and try to, but , . d! Peter, sa1d I are in the majority. Jus' . ' volume which I was readil!!llly trymg to tell ~ and inspired me. It is called 'Books , , . ....! as boys. A number of authors, po,r- . tc' "if it comes to and r1ch men profess ' thf I d. hich 1.1. that is precisely you u rea mg w "' th d I t f th_o_~is least frequently e eve opmen o elT t T . d f J clear-cut shadow ac ers. o JU ge rom W" you would suppose that ~ng landscape and discriminating at siJJbooks or of girls, They tell of great booJrbimself a delicacy books. But they say )i$,of affection, and amusing books, the IJookih be might have venture, the books of gocl not in the least which every honest boy, i:lure of a young finds what he wants. This his involunthe books which as a mat.td dreams in the influence on them-the mple. 1( BOOKS THAT! catastrophe), a~I LOVED AS A BOY their proper station ,_ Y Uncle Peter, "I will do my took the bellows lJJ ~facts. And the first is this: more concrete fialllt in my boyhood when I would "I know enougll than read the best book in truth," said I, wor~,~o~ce had been given me, I I just been reading 1~s1tated between climbing a eties of Religious a canoe, and spending hours • th" ~ave liked also to hunt gn"zzly now IS some tog tlt t to . .1 lians,-but these were purely ry g~ve 1 !JJ ~ volve. Tell me -.ta ched from physical experi- 1 ed 1 them in hot blood. you ov as a 00. · 1ces were trimmed and pruned Uncle Peter, just ~L !ixed my abode, during nine "My veracity!" I!,. . . •m the c1ty of Brooklyn, where academ1c mocker '-.,n _s to ch.m b, no n.v ers to canoe, last rag of rerel!llt. . The w.m ter of my d1. scon-pivot for tunung" .,.., mewhat cheered by games of himself. Howe,e,q in the vacant lots on the and promise to ktbt Ferry, and by fierce batyou about some of~,ts with the tribes of 'Micks • "I promise not hgions of Furman Street and said I , "unless I !here was no High Court · of physical precipia.' tt a peaceful solution of the 109 |