The Edward T. LeBlanc Memorial Dime Novel Bibliography

Item - Patterson's Boy

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New York Weekly edition

(source: NIU Libraries)
Online Full Text: Northern Illinois University
Series: New York Weekly v. 39 no. 24 (page 4)
Item: Patterson's Boy
Author: Barnes, Almer
Date: April 21, 1884

Good News edition

(source: NIU Libraries)
Online Full Text: Northern Illinois University
Series: Good News v. 5 no. 123 (page 1956)
Item: Patterson's Boy
Author: Barnes, Almer
Date: September 10, 1892
First Sentence: It is a true saying "there are no days like the old days," and, indeed, there is no fiction so laughable as the real, humorous incidents of our boyhood days, at least to us, who can so vividly remember every look and gesture of some comic adventure or accident over which at the time we so nearly split our sides that we can't bear to have a woman's finger poking us in the ribs even to this day without getting excited.
Last Sentence: It was an extraordinary occasion to the family, but when I asked him if he were going swimming with me, and the other boy asked him if he wanted to play marbles, the Patterson family thought we didn't appreciate the situation, and we were promptly escorted to the door, our exit from the mansion being hastened by the toe of old Patterson's boot.

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