"I have thrown together a few details ... as I believe may cherish generous impulses, and furnish wholesome food for contemplation especially among that class of boys to which belongs my beloved and only son."--Page [3].

Copyright 1863 by the American Tract Society.

Wood-engraved frontispiece plate signed, "Waters" (i.e., Charles J.B. Waters?). Plate opposite p. 50 signed: Kinnersley sc. [i.e. Augustus F. Kinnersley].

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Books for boys.

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