Rummaging in his father’s shed, a New Hampshire judge finds the diary he kept as a boy, and prints it in all its original spelling: fights, fishing, Sunday school, girls, and the long campaign to own a cornet. Beans Shute and his friends tear through Exeter after the Civil War, and the grown author adds a postscript thirty years on.
A comic forerunner of Tom Sawyer-style boyhood books that still makes adults laugh aloud. Download the free EPUB.