Confessions of Boyhood

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John Albee. Confessions of Boyhood

Confessions of Boyhood

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

THE WALLS OF THE WORLD

SHADOWS AND ECHOES

SHADOWS

ECHO

HOLIDAYS

THE AMPUTATION

COUNTRY FUNERALS

MY MOTHER'S RED CLOAK

MY UNCLE LYMAN

THE ANCIENT NEW ENGLAND FARMER

THE DORR WAR AND MILLERISM

WOODS AND PASTURES

APPRENTICESHIPS

HOME AND HOMESICKNESS

THE SAW-MILL

BOOTMAKING

LOVE AND LUXURY

SHOP BOY

PISTOL MAKER

THE AWAKENING

STUDENT LIFE

SCHOOLMASTER

FARM HAND

CONCLUSION

AVE ATGUE VALE

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John Albee

Published by Good Press, 2019

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Thus by the humble and narrow environment of my childhood was it made doubly dear to me; the very limitations themselves enforcing and promoting the growth of wonder and healthy imagination. It is this which has kept alive my early memories and made them pleasant and suggestive throughout my life. Nor do I think my experiences peculiar. Sir Henry Wotton in the last years of his life happily expressed the feeling common to men. "Seeing that very place where I sat when I was a boy occasioned me to remember those very thoughts of my youth which then possessed me; sweet thoughts indeed, that promised my growing years numerous pleasures without mixture of cares; and those to be enjoyed when time, which I therefore thought slow-paced had changed my youth into manhood".

As I have already said unchangeableness is the characteristic of Bellingham, and I repeat it, that I may add that it is the counterpart of something in myself. I have been swept on with my race and my time and while sharing all their tendencies, at heart what I value most, that which is most native and dearest to me is the simple undisturbed life, full of friendliness, piety and humble amusements into which I was born. What this life was, as reflected in a happy childhood, a neglected youth and idealised by its irrecoverable loss the following pages attempt to portray.

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