ection>George MacDonald
Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood
(Illustrated Edition)
The Adventures in Scottish Highlands (Autobiographical Novel)
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-7583-787-5
Table of Contents
CHAPTER II. The Glimmer of Twilight
CHAPTER VII. Mrs. Mitchell is Defeated
CHAPTER VIII. A New Schoolmistress
CHAPTER IX. We Learn Other Things
CHAPTER XIII. Wandering Willie
CHAPTER XVII. The Trouble Grows
CHAPTER XVIII. Light out of Darkness
CHAPTER XX. I Have a Fall and a Dream
CHAPTER XXII. Vain Intercession
CHAPTER XXIII. Knight-Errantry
CHAPTER XXVI. Old John Jamieson
CHAPTER XXIX. A Double Exposure
CHAPTER XXXIII. A Solitary Chapter
CHAPTER XXXIV. An Evening Visit
CHAPTER XXXV. A Break in my Story
CHAPTER XXXVI. I Learn that I am not a Man
CHAPTER I
Introductory
I do not intend to carry my story one month beyond the hour when I saw that my boyhood was gone and my youth arrived; a period determined to some by the first tail-coat, to me by a different sign. My reason for wishing to tell this first portion of my history is, that when I look back upon it, it seems to me not only so pleasant, but so full of meaning, that, if I can only tell it right, it must prove rather pleasant and not quite unmeaning to those who will read it. It will prove a very poor story to such as care only for stirring adventures, and like them all the better for a pretty strong infusion of the impossible; but those to whom their own history is interesting—to whom, young as they may be, it is a pleasant thing to be in the world—will not, I think, find the experience of a boy born in a very different position from
