Tom Bailey, “not such a very bad, but a pretty bad boy”, comes from New Orleans to live with his grandfather in the old seaport of Rivermouth. He joins a secret club, fights a bully, celebrates a Fourth of July with a midnight cannonade, defends a snow fort on Slatter’s Hill and sails out in the boat Dolphin. Aldrich drew it from his own boyhood in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
The 1870 novel that helped create the American realistic boy book, ahead of Tom Sawyer. Download the free EPUB.