ectarians offer them, and hunger for that which
will warm their hearts and stir their blood. The heart may be warmed,
and the blood may be stirred, without corrupting the moral nature. The
writer has endeavored to meet this demand in this way, and he is quite
sure that the patient, striving, toiling Leo, and the gentle,
self-sacrificing, and devoted Maggie, do nothing in the story which
will defile the mind or the heart of the young people. The Bible
teaches what they sought to practise. He is satisfied that none of his
readers will like Mr. Fitzherbert Wittleworth well enough to make him
their model.

The author is willing the story should pass for what it is worth; and
there is no danger that it will be over or undervalued, for the young
people are even more critical than their elders. But the favor already
bestowed upon it has added to the weight of the writer's obligation to
the juvenile reading public; and in giving them the story in its
present permanent form, he trusts that it will continue to be not only
a source of pleasure, but a stimulus to higher aims, and a more
resolute striving for what is worth having both in the moral and
material world.

WILLIAM T. ADAMS.

HARRISON SQUARE, MASS., July 28, 1868.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

CHAPTER I.

MR. WITTLEWORTH GETS SHAVED 11

CHAPTER II.

BOY WANTED 22

CHAPTER III.

MR. CHECKYNSHAW IS VIOLENT 34

CHAPTER IV.

MR. CHECKYNSHAW RUSHES 46

CHAPTER V.

LEO MAGGIMORE 57

CHAPTER VI.

LEO'S WORKSHOP 69

CHAPTER VII.

MON PERE 81

CHAPTER VIII.

MAKE OR BREAK 94

CHAPTER IX.

MR. CHECKYNSHAW AND FAMILY 105

CHAPTER X.

THE WITTLEWORTH FAMILY 117

CHAPTER XI.

THE MOUSE BUSINESS