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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1913 Original Publisher: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Subjects: History / General Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV THE only thing that bothered him was the sense of failure. He would have to do something some day, and he was being prepared for nothing. Walter had already left Mr. Shipway's for Barstow Grammar School, but no sign had been made that George was to follow him to Mr. Shipway's. He was now nearly twelve. Could it be possible that his parents did not consider him worth sending to school at all? In that case he supposed he would have to be a carpenter or go to work in one of the quarries or even down a coal-mine. Except for the disgrace to his family he would not have minded any of those occupations, and he thought his parents rather unpractical in discouraging his friendships with the carpenter, the blacksmith, the bootmaker and other tradesmen. He envied the boys who assisted them, partly because they wore white coats and corduroy trousers, and he preferred their company to that of the boys whose acquaintance he made through Walter. He was now just too good at orthodox games to be popularas a butt, and not good enough to become a leader. Moreover, Mr. Shipway's pupils despised him for being still under a governess, while the working boys were inclined to admire him for his book- learning. He did not connect book-learning with fitness for any respectable occupation, nor did Walter's friends encourage him to believe that book. learning was the real meaning of school. That year George and Amelia had whooping- cough, and afterward George did not seem to recover. He felt languid and at the same time restless, and sometimes ...

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