viii, 321 pp. Woodcut frontispiece and illustrations, and illustrated endpapers, by Everett Shinn. Jerry Foster wanted to go away to school, but there wasn't enough money and his father wasn't entirely sure it was the best idea anyway... he here tackles his Academy years, and the necessity for paying his own way. Encouraged by his mother, and the college-bred teacher of the district school, he hurdles the skepticism of his father, works for a summer in a cheese factory to earn the money for his entrance payments, and goes off happily to Wayland Academy. There is suspense and drama in those Academy years in the late 1800's...
