This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... AUTHOR'S NOTE It may seem to some of the readers of this story that certain of its episodes are overdrawn or exaggerated to prove the purpose of the novel--if it may be said to have one. While many will contend--and with these I have no quarrel--that the story of Griffith Adams' life is not typical, I ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ... AUTHOR'S NOTE It may seem to some of the readers of this story that certain of its episodes are overdrawn or exaggerated to prove the purpose of the novel--if it may be said to have one. While many will contend--and with these I have no quarrel--that the story of Griffith Adams' life is not typical, I wish to state that the incidents upon which it is based are founded upon fact--or less than fact. The book represents a painstaking effort to transcribe the results of personal observations over a number of years, and to make the principal character of the tale a type of American youth which is, I believe, to all unfortunately familiar. C. G. N. Nw York City, February, 1918. SALT OB THE EDUCATION OF GRIFFITH ADAMS BOOK I CHAPTER I I The education of Griffith Adams was begun, as far as he, himself, could remember, by his sharp-featured nurse, Carrie, seating him firmly upon a high straight-backed chair, after he had been tubbed, combed and arrayed in one of his stiff, starched piqul dresses, and given a long nail file and told from between firm lips, to clean his nails, and that if he rumpled his dress, he would be locked in the closet. The nurse always finished the operation of manicuring him, herself, and frequently hurt him, because at the very last, she was apt to be late and his mother to be waiting. Carrie was not unkind; she was capable. She was spoken of as that "capable Carrie"; she had become so capable that she seemed to lack other attributes. Griffith had heard his mother assert time and again: "I never worry about the baby as long as Carrie's there; Carrie can rise to any emergency, she's so capable!" But Carrie was not as amusing nor as sweet nor as kind as the little round French nurse, Pauline, who succeeded her and...
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