Table of Contents
Chapter I. A Mixture of Fish, Wrangles, and Beer
Chapter II. Dripping Potatoes, Diplomatic Charity, and Christmas Carols
Chapter III. My Schoolmates Teach me American
Chapter V. I cannot become a President, but I can go to the Dumping Grounds
Chapter VI. The Luxurious Possibilities of the Dollar-Down-Dollar-a-Week System of Housekeeping
Chapter VII. I am given the Privilege of Choosing my own Birthday
Chapter VIII. The Keepers of the Mill Gate, Snuff Rubbing, and the Play of a Brute
Chapter IX. A Factory Fashion-plate, the Magic Shirt Bosom, and Wise Counsel on How to Grow Straight
Chapter X. “Peter One-Leg-and-a-Half” and His Optimistic Whistlers
Chapter XI. Esthetic Adventures made possible by a Fifteen-Dollar Piano
Chapter XII. Machinery and Manhood
Chapter XIII. How my Aunt and Uncle Entertained the Spinners
Chapter XIV. Bad Deeds in a Union for Good Works
Chapter XV. The College Graduate Scrubber Refreshes my Ambitions
Chapter XVI. How the Superintendent Shut us Out from Eden
Chapter XVII. I Founded the Priddy Historical Club
Chapter XVIII. A Venture into Art
Chapter XX. My Steam Cooker goes wrong. I go to Newport for Enlistment on a Training-ship