Caddy Buddy books

When the
necessity was over, and the man or the boy in any generation
got a college education, or was called to take part in public
affairs, he rose at once and easily to the demands of an exalted
station. What is true of New England people in this respect
is, I suppose, true of the whole country.
I wrote, a few years ago, an account of so much of my boyhood
as elapsed before I went to college. Through the kindness
of the proprietors of _The Youth's Companion,_ I am permitted
to print it here. I think, on the whole, that is better than
to undertake to tell the story in other phraseology adapted
to maturer readers. Indeed, I am not sure that the best examples
of good English are not to be found in books written for children.
When we have to tell a story to a small boy or girl, we avoid
little pomposities, and seek for the plainest, clearest and
most direct phrase.
I believe that boys nowadays are more manly and mature than
they were in my time. Perhaps this is partly because the
boys show more gravity in my presence, now I am an old man,
than they did when I was a boy myself.


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