Howells recalls his childhood in Hamilton, Ohio, in the 1840s, writing of the town as a small boy saw it, from no higher than a man’s middle. The river, the canal and its basin, the hydraulic, schools and teachers, games of war against the Bridish, musters, swimming holes and the codes boys kept among themselves are all set down with dry humour.
A classic of American boyhood by the dean of American realism, read with pleasure by grown readers. Download the free EPUB.