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. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...a man's coat. I've got a tail coat. Therefore I am a man and must behave as such." He took to wearing that coat every time he had a chance, instead of keeping it for Sundays. He grew haughty to all the younger boys, snorted if you suggested playing marbles, and began to look down on all sorts of boys' ...
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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. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ...a man's coat. I've got a tail coat. Therefore I am a man and must behave as such." He took to wearing that coat every time he had a chance, instead of keeping it for Sundays. He grew haughty to all the younger boys, snorted if you suggested playing marbles, and began to look down on all sorts of boys' games that he had grown to be fond of. He wouldn't read any books about boys, but only men's books, and that finished him. He wrote to his aunts and asked them to send him a high hat as a present on his fifteenth birthday, and when the high hat--a regular black steeple--arrived, he said he should leave school and be a man of the world. He thought he would go in for being a man about town. His new books had a great deal in them about men's adventures in London. He came up to me one day, with his hat and tail coat on, and said: "When a man takes a man into a man's confidence, a man needn't say he expects it to be respected." I replied, "What's up?" Eaglebeak said, "Come here," and took me round to the other side of the playground wall. Then he felt to make sure that his hat was on all right, and that his tails fell properly behind, and said, with awful solemness, "Higgins senior, I'm in love!" I said, "In love? What with?" Eaglebeak replied, "Don't you call her what, Higgins senior--you mean whom with. I'll tell you. Have you noticed a new young lady at the confectioner's shop?" "Yes," said I; "she's cut off my credit." Eaglebeak murmured, " Has she? Divine creature!" "Divine you call it, do you?--I don't," I answered. Eaglebeak passed over the remark as though he hadn't heard it, but seized me by the collar as he hissed in my ear, ...
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