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Title: The Crofton Boys

Author: Harriet Martineau

Release Date: August 26, 2007 [EBook #22410]

Language: English

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THE CROFTON BOYS

BY HARRIET MARTINEAU

AUTHOR OF "THE PEASANT AND THE PRINCE," "FEATS ON THE FIORD," ETC., ETC.

LONDON
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS

BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL
NEW YORK: 9, LAFAYETTE PLACE

Ballantyne Press
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO., EDINBURGH
CHANDOS STREET, LONDON

[Illustration: The Crofton Boys.]

CONTENTS.

I. ALL THE PROCTORS BUT PHIL

II. WHY MR. TOOKE CAME

III. MICHAELMAS-DAY COME

IV. MICHAELMAS-DAY OVER

V. CROFTON PLAY

VI. FIRST RAMBLE

VII. WHAT IS ONLY TO BE HAD AT HOME

VIII. A LONG DAY

IX. CROFTON QUIET

X. LITTLE VICTORIES

XI. DOMESTIC MANNERS

XII. HOLT AND HIS DIGNITY

XIII. TRIPPING

XIV. HOLT AND HIS HELP

XV. CONCLUSION

THE CROFTON BOYS.

CHAPTER I.

ALL THE PROCTORS BUT PHIL.

Mr. Proctor, the chemist and druggist, kept his shop, and lived in the
Strand, London. His children thought that there was never anything
pleasanter than the way they lived. Their house was warm in winter, and
such a little distance from the church, that they had no difficulty in
getting to church and back again, in the worst weather, before their
shoes were wet. They were also conveniently near to Covent Garden
market; so that, if any friend dropped in to dinner unexpectedly, Jane
and Agnes could be off to the market, and buy a fowl, or some vegetables
or fruit, and be back again before they were missed. It was not even too
far for little Harry to trot with one of his sisters, early on a
su