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Title: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth

Author: John Muir

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Language: English

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THE STORY OF MY BOYHOOD AND YOUTH

by

JOHN MUIR

With Illustrations from Sketches by the Author

Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
The Riverside Press Cambridge
Copyright, 1912 and 1913, by the Atlantic Monthly Company
Copyright, 1913, by John Muir
All Rights Reserved Including the Right to Reproduce
This Book or Parts Thereof in Any Form
Published March 1913
Fourteenth Impression
The Riverside Press
Cambridge . Massachusetts
Printed in the U.S.A.

Contents

I. A BOYHOOD IN SCOTLAND 1

Earliest Recollections--The "Dandy Doctor" Terror--Deeds
of Daring--The Savagery of Boys--School and
Fighting--Birds'-nesting.

II. A NEW WORLD 51

Stories of America--Glorious News--Crossing the
Atlantic--The New Home