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John Godfrey's Fortunes Related By Himself: A Story Of American Life
John Godfrey's Fortunes Related By Himself A Story Of American Life Author:Bayard Taylor General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1879 Original Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you ... more »can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER H. DESCRIBING MY INTRODUCTION INTO DR. DYMOND'S BOARDING-SCHOOL. From that day the preparations for my departure went forward without interruption. Mother quite recovered her cheerfulness, both permitting and encouraging my -glowing predictions of the amount of study I should perform and the progress I should make. The jacket was finished, still retaining its perverse tendency to fly open, which gave me trouble enough afterwards. I had also a pair of trousers of the same material; they might have been a little baggy in the hinder parts, but otherwise they, fitted me very well. A new cap was needed, and mother had serious thoughts of undertaking its construction. My old seal-skin was worn bare, but even a new one of the same material would scarcely have answered. Somebody reported from Honeybrook that Dr. Dymond's scholars wore stylish caps of blue cloth, and our store-keeper was therefore commissioned to get me one of the same kind from Philadelphia, lie took the measure of my head, to make sure of a fit; yet, when the wonderful cap came, it proved to be much too large. " "T will all come right in the end, Mrs. Godfrey," said the store-keeper; " his head '11 begin to swell when he's been at school a few weeks." Meanwhile, it was carefully accommodated to my present dimensions by a roll of paper inside the morocco lining. A pair of kip-skin boots -- real top-boots, and the first I ever had -- completed my outfit. Compared with my previous experience, I was gorgeouslyarrayed. It was fortunate that my Sundays were to be spent at home, as a second suit, much...« less