Nobody's Boy: Sans Famile (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Egle, William Henry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440052956 ISBN 13: 9781440052958

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

NOBODY'S BOY CHAPTER I MY VILLAGE HOME I WAS a foundling. But until I was cigh t years of age I thought I had a mother like other children, for when I cried a. woman held me tightly in her arms and rocked me gently until D1Y tears stopped falling. I never got into bed without her coming to kiss mc, and when tbe December winds blew the icy snow against the window panes, she ,,·ould take my feet between her hands and warm them, while she sang to me. Even now I can remember the song she used to sing. If a storm came 'on while I was out minding our cow, she would run down the lane to meet me, and cover my bead and shoulders 'ith her cotton skirt so that I should not get wet. When I had n quarrel with one of the village boys she made me tell her all about it, a:t;ld she would talk kindly to me when I was wrong and praise me when I was i~ the right. By these and many other things, by the ,,-ay she spoke to me and looked at me, and the gentle way she scolded mc,

Table of Contents

t;UN 'l'l!il'J 'rs; 0; CHAPTER PAD!; I My VJLLA13E HOME 1; II ~lY ADOPTED FATnEn • · 10; III SIONOR VITALIst COMPANY · • • 21; IV TnE MATERNAL HOUSE • • • • 3S; V EN ROUTE · 43; VI lJy DtnUT · 49; YII CIJILD AND ANIMAL LEARNING • • · 01; VIII ONE Wno HAD KNOWN A KINO • • 67; IX ABBESTED · 74-; X HOMELES~ · • 85; XI ANornn Boy's MOTHER • 100; XII TnE ~IASTEnts CoNSENT • • 120; XIII WEARY Dlu:A&y DAYS • 128; XIV THE DEATH OF Pru:rrY-HEABT • • • 148; XV FAITDFUL FB~NDS • • · 163; XVI TUE PAnnONE • • · • • IS!); XVII PooB VlTAIlS ~184; XVI1I NEW FRIENDS • • • 194; XIS: Dl5ASmB • • • • • 205; XX MA'l"I1A • • • 220; XXI ~EE11NO Ow FRIENDS • 23G; XXII IUI'RlSO:vED IN A MINE • 244; XXIII ONCE MOR£ UPON l'DE WAY • • 202; XXIV F1UENDSrrlP TnAT Is TRUE • • ZiO; XXV MOTHER, BBOTHERS AND SISTEnS • 2M; XXVI BlTl'EB DISArPOINTMENT • • • • 304; XXVJI A DISTBESBlNO DISCOVl:BY • au; Vl CONTElTTS; CDAPTD PAOE; XXVIII A MYSTERIOUS STIlANGEB • • • • • 330;

Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440052956
• ISBN 13: 9781440052958
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 394