02947cam a22004813u 4500 77143 UtSlPG 20260610134804.0 m cr n 260607r20251887utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PZ Grant, Robert, 1852-1940 Jack Hall Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-10-28 Produced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Jack Hall by Robert Grant is a novel written in the late 19th century. It centers on the spirited schooldays of a Boston boy, Jack Hall, tracing his pranks, friendships, and formative scrapes as he inches toward greater responsibility. Expect brisk episodes of winter sport and street mischief, a tight-knit circle of boys, and the tension between boyish daring and a devoted mother’s guidance. The opening of the novel drops us into Washington’s Birthday in Boston, where thirteen-year-old Jack revels in snowballing a grocer’s clerk, hitching behind sleighs, candy-shop indulgences, and headlong coasting that ends in a spill. He and his friends wage a raucous neighborhood snowball battle against “muckers,” with Jack toppling the feared Joe Herring before a policeman disperses the fray. That evening they feast at home and pull off nocturnal pranks—chalk “letters,” a bell-string trip that humiliates a stern neighbor—while Jack candidly admits to his mother that he tried smoking rattan. By morning he has measles, the grocer arrives to protest ongoing mischief and petty pilfering, and Jack’s mother reflects on his forebears, the limits of city boyhood, and whether a country school might better shape his character. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Boston: Jordan, Marsh and Company, 1887 Christian life -- Juvenile fiction Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Boys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction Schools -- Juvenile fiction Baseball -- Juvenile fiction Children -- Death -- Juvenile fiction Friendship -- Juvenile fiction Boys -- Juvenile fiction Boarding schools -- Juvenile fiction Students -- Juvenile fiction Mothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction Sick -- Juvenile fiction Sports stories Awards -- Juvenile fiction Tobacco -- Juvenile fiction Attwood, Francis Gilbert, 1856-1900 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77143 117865 117865