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100 1 _aGrant, Robert,
_d1852-1940
245 1 0 _aJack Hall
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2025-10-28
508 _aProduced by Donald Cummings and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _aJack 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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cBoston: Jordan, Marsh and Company, 1887
653 _aChristian life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aConduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aBoys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aSchools -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aBaseball -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aChildren -- Death -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aFriendship -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aBoys -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aBoarding schools -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aStudents -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aMothers and sons -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aSick -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aSports stories
653 _aAwards -- Juvenile fiction
653 _aTobacco -- Juvenile fiction
700 1 _aAttwood, Francis Gilbert,
_d1856-1900
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77143
999 _c117865
_d117865