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DAB KINZER
A STORY OF A GROWING BOY
BY
WILLIAM O. STODDARD
1884
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.THE KINZER FARM, THE NEW SUIT, AND THE WEDDING.
CHAPTER II.DAB'S OLD CLOTHES GET A NEW BOY TO FIT.
CHAPTER III.A MEMBER OF ONE OF THE OLDEST FAMILIES MEETS A YOUNGGENTLEMAN FROM THE CITY.
CHAPTER IV.TWO BOYS, ONE PIG, AND AN UNFORTUNATE RAILWAY-TRAIN.
CHAPTER V.NEW NEIGHBORS, AND GETTING SETTLED.
CHAPTER VI.CRABS, BOYS, AND A BOAT-WRECK.
CHAPTER VII.A VERY ACCIDENTAL CALL.
CHAPTER VIII.A RESCUE, AND A GRAND GOOD TIME.
CHAPTER IX.THERE ARE DIFFERENT KINDS OF BOYS.
CHAPTER X.A CRUISE IN "THE SWALLOW".
CHAPTER XI.SPLENDID FISHING, AND A BIG FOG.
CHAPTER XII.HOW THE GAME OF "FOLLOW MY LEADER" CAN BE PLAYEDAT SEA.
CHAPTER XIII."HOME AGAIN! HERE WE ARE!".
CHAPTER XIV.A GREAT MANY THINGS GETTING READY TO COME.
CHAPTER XV.DABNEY KINZER TO THE RESCUE.
CHAPTER XVI.DAB KINZER AND HAM MORRIS TURN INTO A FIRE-DEPARTMENT.
CHAPTER XVII.DAB HAS A WAKING DREAM, AND HAM GETS A SNIFF OF SEA-AIR.
CHAPTER XVIII.HOW DAB WORKED OUT ANOTHER OF HIS GREAT PLANS.
CHAPTER XIX.A GRAND SAILING-PARTY, AND AN EXPERIMENT BY RICHARD LEE.
CHAPTER XX.A WRECK AND SOME WRECKERS.
CHAPTER XXI.DAB AND HIS FRIENDS TURN THEMSELVES INTO COOKS AND WAITERS.
CHAPTER XXII.THE REAL MISSION OF THE JUG.
CHAPTER XXIII.ANOTHER GRAND PLAN, AND A VERY GRAND RUNAWAY.
CHAPTER XXIV.DABNEY'S GREAT PARTY.
CHAPTER XXV.THE BOYS ON THEIR TRAVELS. A GREAT CITY, AND A GREAT DINNER.
CHAPTER XXVI.THE FIRST MORNING IN GRANTLEY, AND ANOTHER EXCELLENT JOKE.
CHAPTER XXVII.A NEW KIND OF EXAMINATION.
CHAPTER XXVIII.AN UNUSUAL AMOUNT OF INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER XXIX.LETTERS HOME FROM THE BOYS.—DICK LEE'S FIRST GRIEF.
CHAPTER XXX.DABNEY KINZER TRIES FRESH-WATER FISHING FOR THE FIRST TIME.
CHAPTER XXXI.A FIGHT, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
CHAPTER XXXII.OLD FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS OF HIS COME TO VISIT DABNEY.
DAB KINZER
CHAPTER I.
THE KINZER FARM, THE NEW SUIT, AND THE WEDDING.
Between the village and the inlet, and half a mile from the great "bay,"lay the Kinzer farm. Beyond the bay was a sandbar, and beyond that theAtlantic Ocean; for all this was on the southerly shore of Long Island.
The Kinzer farm had lain right there—acre for acre, no more, noless—on the day when Hendrik Hudson long ago sailed the good ship "HalfMoon" into New-York Bay. But it was not then known to any one as theKinzer farm. Neither was there then, as now, any bright and growingvillage crowding up on one side of it, with a railway-station and apost-off