Through the school: The experiences of a mill boy in securing an education

THROUGH THE SCHOOL

Preface

Illustrations

Chapter I. Fifteen Dollars and Sixty-five Cents Worth of International Travel. An Inspiring Reception in Front of Chief Pungo Memorial Hall

Chapter II. I Help a Real Poet to Sing his Hymn. My First Chance and How I Succeeded with it

Chapter III. Thropper’s Puff Tie. Sounds That Passed in the Night. The Possible Advantages of Speaking Tubes. The Scroll of Divine History. The Meditations of a Saint. How Thropper Lost his Pious Reputation

Chapter IV. Thundering Gymnastics. How to Keep on the Good Side of the Young Women with Scriptural Quotations. The Establishment of Friendship. Carrying Water for Beauty. How Music may be Something More than Music. The Wonderful, Austere Man that Thropper Led me to

Chapter V. Pungo Hall’s Occupants: Estes Who Planned to Take a Tent and Plant it in the Midst of the World’s Sin; of the Little Man Who Fled from the Chidings of a ‘D. D.’: of Calloused Hands and Showing How ‘Pa’ Borden was Beaten by the Grass Widower with the Long Hair

Chapter VI. Financial Pessimism Taken in Hand by Thropper and Shown in its Real Light. A Turkish Rug that Smoked. A Poet in Search of Kerosene. Wonderful Antics of an Ironing-Board. Economy at a Tub. Three more Waiting for it After Brock’s Bath. The Chemical Reduction of a Cauldron of Tomatoes into Something Sweet

Chapter VII. An Academic Ride in Five Carriages at Once. A Business Appeal Mixed in with the Order of Creation. Is it Best for a Man to Marry his First Love. A Sleuth-Dean. A Queen’s Birthday Supper with an Athletic Conclusion. Jerry Birch Stands up for Albion. How we Tamed him