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The Boys
Whose Memory Goes Back With Me
To The Boarding School
At Potowome
This Volume Is Affectionately Dedicated
By
The Author.
CONTENTS
PREFACE
PAUL PRESCOTT'S CHARGE
I. -- SQUIRE NEWCOME.
II. -- PAUL PRESCOTT'S HOME.
III. -- PAUL'S BRILLIANT PROSPECTS.
IV. -- LIFE IN A NEW PHASE.
V. -- A CRISIS.
VI. -- PAUL'S DETERMINATION
VII. -- PAUL BEGINS HIS JOURNEY.
VIII. -- A FRIEND IN NEED.
IX. -- A CLOUD IN THE MUDGE HORIZON.
X. -- MR. MUDGE MEETS HIS MATCH.
XI. -- WAYSIDE GOSSIP.
XII. -- ON THE BRINK OF DISCOVERY.
XIII. -- PAUL REACHES THE CITY.
XIV. -- A STRANGE BED-CHAMBER.
XV. -- A TURN OF FORTUNE.
XVI. -- YOUNG STUPID.
XVII. -- BEN'S PRACTICAL JOKE.
XVIII. -- MORE ABOUT BEN.
XIX. -- MRS. MUDGE'S DISCOMFITURE.
XX. -- PAUL OBTAINS A SITUATION.
XXI. -- SMITH AND THOMPSON'S YOUNG MAN.
XXII. -- MR. BENTON'S ADVENTURE.
XXIII. -- PAUL LOSES HIS SITUATION AND GAINS A FRIEND.
XXIV. -- PAUL CALLS ON MRS. DANFORTH.
XXV. -- AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE.
XXVI. -- A VULGAR RELATION.
XXVII. -- MR. MUDGE'S FRIGHT.
XXVIII. -- HOW BEN GOT HOME.
XXIX. -- DAWKINS IN DIFFICULTIES.
XXX. -- A TRAP IS LAID FOR PAUL.
XXXI. -- CONVICTED OF THEFT.
XXXII. -- RIGHT TRIUMPHANT.
XXXIII. -- PAUL REDEEMS HIS PLEDGE.
XXXIV. -- HOW PAUL GOES BACK TO WRENVILLE.
XXXV. -- CONCLUSION.
“PAUL PRESCOTT'S CHARGE” is presented to the public as the second volume of the Campaign Series. Though wholly unlike the first volume, it is written in furtherance of the same main idea, that every boy's life is a campaign, more or less difficult, in which success depends upon integrity and a steadfast adherence to duty.
How Paul Prescott gained strength by battling with adverse circumstances, and, under all discouragements, kept steadily before him the charge which he received from his dying father, is fully told; and the author will be glad if the record shall prove an incentive and an encouragement to those boys who may have a similar campaign before them.
PAUL PRESCOTT'S CHARGE.
I. SQUIRE NEWCOME.
“HANNAH!”
The speaker was a tall, pompous-looking man, whose age appeared to verge close upon fifty. He was sitting bolt upright in a high-backed chair, and looked as if it would be quite impossible to deviate from his position of unbending rigidity.
Squire Benjamin Newcome, as he was called, in the right of his position as Justice of the Peace, Chairman of the Selectmen, and wealthiest resident of Wrenville, was a man of rule and measure. He was measured in his walk, measured in his utterance, and measured in all his transactions. He might be called a dignified machine. He had a very exalted conception of his own position, and the respect which he felt to be his due, not only from his own household, but from all who approached him. If the President of the United States had called upon him, Squire Newcome would very probably have felt that he himself was the party who conferred distinction, and not received it.
Squire Newcome was a widower. His wife, who was as different from himself as could well be conceived, did not live long after marriage. She was chilled to death, as it was thought, by the dignified iceberg of whose
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