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Title: Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy
1899

Author: George W. Peck

Release Date: May 16, 2008 [EBook #25490]

Language: English

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PECK'S UNCLE IKE AND THE RED HEADED BOY

By George W. Peck

Alexander Belford & Co. - 1899

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To the Typical American Boy,

The boy who is not so awfully good, along at first, but just good
enough; the boy who does not cry when he gets hurt, and goes into all
the dangerous games there are going, and goes in to win; the boy who
loves his girl with the same earnestness that he plays football, and
who takes the hard knocks of work and play until he becomes hardened
to anything that may come to him in after life; the boy who will
investigate everything in the way of machinery, even if he gets his
fingers pinched, and learns how to make the machine that pinched him;
the boy who, by study, experience, and mixing up with the world, knows
a little about everything that he will have to deal with when he
grows up--the all-around boy, that makes the all-around man, ready for
anything, from praying for his country's prosperity to fighting for its
honor; the boy who grows up qualified to lead anything, from the german
at a dance to an army in battle; the boy who can take up a collection
in church, or take up an artery on a man injured in a railroad accident,
without losing his nerve; the boy who can ask a blessing if called upon
to do so, or ask a girl's ugly father for the hand of his daughter in
marriage, without choking up; the boy who grows up to be a man whom all
men respect, all women love, and whom everybody wants to see President
of the United States, this book is respectfully dedicated by

The Author.

CHAPTER I.

"Here, Uncle Ike, let me give you a nice piece of paper, twisted up
beautifully, to light your pipe," said the red-headed boy, as Uncle Ike,
with his long clay pipe, filled with ill-s