PHAETON ROGERS
Reading edition
A NOVEL OF BOY LIFE
BY
ROSSITER JOHNSON
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 743 AND 745 BROADWAY 1881
COPYRIGHT BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1881
TROW'S PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY, 201-213 East 12th Street, NEW YORK.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. A Morning Canter
CHAPTER II. Rapid Transit
CHAPTER III. Aunt Mercy
CHAPTER IV. Jack-in-the-Box
CHAPTER V. Jimmy the Rhymer
CHAPTER VI. The Price of Poetry
CHAPTER VII. Phaeton's Chariot
CHAPTER VIII. A Horizontal Balloon-Ascension
CHAPTER IX. The Art Deservative
CHAPTER X. Torments of Typography
CHAPTER XI. A Comical Comet
CHAPTER XII. A Literary Mystery
CHAPTER XIII. A Lyric Strain
CHAPTER XIV. An Alarm of Fire
CHAPTER XV. Running with the Machine
CHAPTER XVI. A New Fire-Extinguisher
CHAPTER XVII. How a Church Flew a Kite
CHAPTER XVIII. An Extra Fourth-of-July
CHAPTER XIX. A Conquest
CHAPTER XX. Rings, Scissors, and Boots
CHAPTER XXI. A Tea-Party
CHAPTER XXII. Old Shoes and Orange-Blossoms
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
The Printing-Office
Rapid Transit by Cable
Rapid Transit by Car
The Boys Consult Jack-in-the-Box
Ned's Invention
"The Whole Caravan went Roaring down the Turnpike"
Ned's Plan for a Press
The Meddlesome Poet
The Frame of a Comet
"A Comet, Gentlemen—A Blazing Comet!"
"It Rose Like a Fountain"
A Broken Poem
"Jimmy Looked so Pale and Thin"
"Ned Looked Up into the Face of a Policeman"
Phaeton is Taken for a Burglar
"Jump Her, Boys! Jump Her!"
"This Must Be Put in a Safe Place"
Phaeton's Fire-Extinguisher
The Kite on the Steeple
Discharging the Arrow
Riding Home in the Barouche
How the Chair was Mended
Taking Home the Chairs
The Boys Run the Red Rover
Bridal Favors