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Square and Compasses; Or, Building the House

By Oliver Optic

2019-11-16 03:02:42

"SQUARE AND COMPASSES" is the third volume of "THE BOAT-BUILDER SERIES." All the characters connected with the Beech Hill Industrial School who were presented in the preceding story will appear in the present issue. In addition to these, the students ... Read more
"SQUARE AND COMPASSES" is the third volume of "THE BOAT-BUILDER SERIES." All the characters connected with the Beech Hill Industrial School who were presented in the preceding story will appear in the present issue. In addition to these, the students of another educational institution, on the other side of the lake, are introduced, as well as a gang of ruffianly young marauders residing in the vicinity of the Champlain mechanics. These additions to the acting force of the story are made, not merely for the sake of the incidents and adventures to which their appearance gives rise, but for the contrast between well-behaved mechanics and ill-behaved gentlemen, and between boys well-trained and those not trained at all, as in the example of the Topovers. Less

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File size528.451 KB
Print pages198
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1976352768
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Oliver Optic
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William Taylor Adams (July 30, 1822 – March 27, 1897), pseudonym Oliver Optic, was a noted academic, author, and a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. Adams was born in Medway, Mas...

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