14

THE OTHER SIDE, 32

DEACON BISSELL, 36

THE YOUNGEST BOY, 48

A NOBLE RESOLUTION, 60

A TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE, 75

THANKSGIVING AND TEMPTATION, 80

PATRIOTISM AND POWDER, 89

THE GLASS OF GIN, 100

LIFE IN A FACTORY, 111

A GLANCE AT FREDERICK, 120

SAMUEL IN BOSTON, 132

THE FLOUR STORE, 140

THE WINDING UP, 152

ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE PEDDLER AND HIS GRANDCHILDREN, (Frontispiece)

VIGNETTE TITLE-PAGE, 1

SAMUEL AND THE SCHOOLMASTER, 52

LOOKING THROUGH THE TELESCOPE, 65

A TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE, 74

THE YOUNG DRUMMER, 93

THE DRUNKARD, WITH HIS FATHER, 128

MR. BISSELL AND HIS CHILDREN, 147

THE PEDDLER'S BOY.

CHAP. I.

A BIRD'S-EYE GLANCE.

Among the many beautiful villages near Boston, there is one quite as
beautiful as any, situated but a few miles from that busy metropolis,
called--but I must not mention its name; that is of very little
consequence. A few rods from the Common, the pride of the Bostonians,
is the depot of the railroad which passes through this place; and one
has only to jump into the cars, and in less than fifteen minutes he is
there. Uncle Frank has some dear friends in this village, and choice
spirits they are, in his estimation. How much this fact has to do with
his opinion of the beauty of the place, he does not pretend to say. He
has scarcely settled it in his own mind. Nor is it much matter, as the
story about to be related will neither lose nor gain much in its
interest, by the good or ill opinion which the reader may happen to
have of the village itself; though I may be pardoned for adding tha