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My Boyhood
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Title: My Boyhood
Author: John Burroughs
Release Date: January, 2005 [EBook #7280] [This file was first posted on April 6, 2003]
Edition: 10
Language: English
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MY BOYHOOD
BY
JOHN BURROUGHS
WITH A CONCLUSION BY HIS SON
JULIAN BURROUGHS
FOREWORD
In the beginning, at least, Father wrote these sketches of his boyhood and early farm life as a matter of self-defense: I had made a determined attempt to write them and when I did this I was treading on what was to him more or less sacred ground, for as he once said in a letter to me,