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    Charles Duran Or, The Career of a Bad Boy By the author of "The Waldos"
    Charles Duran Or, The Career of a Bad Boy By the author of "The Waldos"
    Charles Duran Or, The Career of a Bad Boy By the author of "The Waldos"
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      Charles Duran Or, The Career of a Bad Boy By the author of "The Waldos" - Archive Classics

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Charles Duran, by The Author of The Waldos

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      Title: Charles Duran

      Or, The Career of a Bad Boy

      Author: The Author of The Waldos

      Release Date: March 30, 2005 [EBook #15507]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CHARLES DURAN ***

      Produced by Internet Archive; University of Florida, PM Childrens

      Library, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online Distributed Proofreading

      Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

      CHARLES DURAN:

      OR,

      THE CAREER OF A BAD BOY.

      BY THE AUTHOR OF THE WALDOS.

      CHARLES DURAN:

      OR,

      THE CAREER OF A BAD BOY.

      BY THE AUTHOR OF THE WALDOS.

      New-York:

      PUBLISHED BY CARLTON & PORTER,

      SUNDAY-SCHOOL UNION, 200 MULBERRY-STREET.

      Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1850, by

      LANE & SCOTT,

      in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern

      District of New-York.

      CONTENTS.

      CHAPTER I.

      THE HOMESTEAD.

      The house—Court-yards—Garden—The well—Oaken bucket—The fields—Flocks—River—Fish—Forest—Church

      CHAPTER II.

      THE BIRTH OF CHARLES.

      Effects on the parents—The Joneses—Parental expectations—An instance of disappointment—Ann's prophecy

      CHAPTER III.

      HIS EARLY TRAINING.

      Opinions—The Durans indulgent—The sulks—They produce blindness—I will—I won't—Faults of parents

      CHAPTER IV.

      CHARLES DURAN AT SCHOOL.

      Good children at home are good in school—Conduct—Inattention to studies—Unkind to his school-mates—Samuel Howard—Helen Fay—John and Louisa—Severe whipping—Mr. Spicer—Charles expelled from school

      CHAPTER V.

      CHARLES'S HABITS.

      Good habits—Proverbs of the Rabbins—Charles not improved—Idleness—Fishing and hunting—No idle boy can be good—Shooting—Roughness of manners—One vice is followed by another—Lying—Sabbath-breaking—Intemperance—A standard of wickedness

      CHAPTER VI.

      THE FATAL NIGHT.

      Village balls—Description—Culpability of parents—Demand for money—Fit—House stoned—Windows broken in—Mr. Duran with the bag—Charles's wrath appeased—The ball—Charles intoxicated—Falls to the floor—Brought home speechless—Laid upon his death-bed

      CHAPTER VII.

      SICKNESS AND DEATH.

      Sufferings from the debauch—Crisis—Favorable change—Hopes of recovery cut off—Consumption—Contrivance to change his position—State of mind—The minister visits him—No evidence of penitence—The dying scene

      CHAPTER VIII.

      THE CONCLUSION.

      The way of transgressors hard—Disobedience to parents a fearful sin—Parental restraint—Pleasures of parental approbation—Disobedience in scholars—Reflections—Sporting habits in children not to be encouraged—Importance of early religious training—History of young Duran a warning to Sabbath-breakers, &c.—Beware of the first sin—The End

      CHARLES DURAN.

      CHAPTER I.

      THE DURAN HOMESTEAD.

      Before giving the history of Charles Duran's birth, life, and early death, I will partially describe his father's residence. It was situated in the town of ——, in the State of Connecticut, and about six miles from the west bank of the beautiful Connecticut river. The house stood on a level road, running north and south, and was about one mile from the centre of the town.

      Mr. Duran's

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