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Beadle's Pocket Library No. 121

1886 · Free to read

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About this issue

This 1886 pulp serial by Bracebridge Hemyng opens at Dr. Smiley's boarding academy in Sweetwater, New York, where seven young men lodge. Harry Armstrong, eighteen, tall and muscular, captains the Mamaroneck Athletic Club and excels at rowing, running, swimming, and boxing. Sim Adderly, a twenty-one-year-old law student, harbors bitter envy of Armstrong's athletic prowess and the romantic attention of the doctor's daughter, Tessy. When Adderly insults Armstrong's mother's poverty during a classroom dispute, Armstrong hurls a dictionary at him—accidentally striking an arriving English visitor, Albert Fitzhugh. Dr. Smiley reprimands Armstrong while Adderly seethes with revenge. The narrative combines school dynamics, athletic competition, and emerging romantic tension in a young-men's adventure tale.

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