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Title: Dab Kinzer A Story of a Growing Boy
Author: William O. Stoddard
Release Date: November 30, 2003 [EBook #10340]
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DAB KINZER
A STORY OF A GROWING BOY

BY
WILLIAM O. STODDARD
1884

CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.
THE KINZER FARM, THE NEW SUIT, AND THE WEDDING.
CHAPTER II.
DAB'S OLD CLOTHES GET A NEW BOY TO FIT.
CHAPTER III.
A MEMBER OF ONE OF THE OLDEST FAMILIES MEETS A
YOUNG GENTLEMAN FROM THE CITY.
CHAPTER IV.
TWO BOYS, ONE PIG, AND AN UNFORTUNATE
RAILWAY-TRAIN.
CHAPTER V.
NEW NEIGHBORS, AND GETTING SETTLED.
CHAPTER VI.
CRABS, BOYS, AND A BOAT-WRECK.
CHAPTER VII.

A VERY ACCIDENTAL CALL.
CHAPTER VIII.
A RESCUE, AND A GRAND GOOD TIME.
CHAPTER IX.
THERE ARE DIFFERENT KINDS OF BOYS.
CHAPTER X.
A CRUISE IN "THE SWALLOW".
CHAPTER XI.
SPLENDID FISHING, AND A BIG FOG.
CHAPTER XII.
HOW THE GAME OF "FOLLOW MY LEADER" CAN BE PLAYED
AT SEA.
CHAPTER XIII.
"HOME AGAIN! HERE WE ARE!".
CHAPTER XIV.
A GREAT MANY THINGS GETTING READY TO COME.
CHAPTER XV.
DABNEY KINZER TO THE RESCUE.
CHAPTER XVI.

DAB KINZER AND HAM MORRIS TURN INTO A
FIRE-DEPARTMENT.
CHAPTER XVII.
DAB HAS A WAKING DREAM, AND HAM GETS A SNIFF OF
SEA-AIR.
CHAPTER XVIII.
HOW DAB WORKED OUT ANOTHER OF HIS GREAT PLANS.
CHAPTER XIX.
A GRAND SAILING-PARTY, AND AN EXPERIMENT BY
RICHARD LEE.
CHAPTER XX.
A WRECK AND SOME WRECKERS.
CHAPTER XXI.
DAB AND HIS FRIENDS TURN THEMSELVES INTO COOKS
AND WAITERS.
CHAPTER XXII.
THE REAL MISSION OF THE JUG.
CHAPTER XXIII.
ANOTHER GRAND PLAN, AND A VERY GRAND RUNAWAY.
CHAPTER XXIV.
DABNEY'S GREAT PARTY.

CHAPTER XXV.
THE BOYS ON THEIR TRAVELS. A GREAT CITY, AND A
GREAT DINNER.
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE FIRST MORNING IN GRANTLEY, AND ANOTHER
EXCELLENT JOKE.
CHAPTER XXVII.
A NEW KIND OF EXAMINATION.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
AN UNUSUAL AMOUNT OF INTRODUCTION.
CHAPTER XXIX.
LETTERS HOME FROM THE BOYS.--DICK LEE'S FIRST GRIEF.
CHAPTER XXX.
DABNEY KINZER TRIES FRESH-WATER FISHING FOR THE
FIRST TIME.
CHAPTER XXXI.
A FIGHT, AND WHAT CAME OF IT.
CHAPTER XXXII.
OLD FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS OF HIS COME TO VISIT
DABNEY.

DAB KINZER
CHAPTER I.
THE KINZER FARM, THE NEW SUIT, AND THE WEDDING.
Between the village and the inlet, and half a mile from the great "bay,"
lay the Kinzer farm. Beyond the bay was a sandbar, and beyond that the
Atlantic Ocean; for all this was on the southerly shore of Long Island.
The Kinzer farm had lain right there--acre for acre, no more, no
less--on the day when Hendrik Hudson long ago sailed the good ship
"Half Moon" into New-York Bay. But it was not then known to any
one as the Kinzer farm. Neither was there then, as now, any bright and
growing village crowding up on one side of it, with a railway-station
and a post-office. Nor was there, at that time, any great and busy city of
New York, only a few hours' ride away, over on the island of
Manhattan. The Kinzers themselves were not there then. But the bay
and the inlet, with the fish and the crabs, and the ebbing and flowing
tides, were there, very much the same, before Hendrik Hudson and his
brave Dutchmen knew any thing whatever about that corner of the
world.
The Kinzer farm had always been a reasonably "fat" one, both as to
size and quality; and the good people who lived on it had generally
been of a somewhat similar description. It was, therefore, every way
correct and becoming for Dabney Kinzer's widowed mother and his
sisters to be the plump and hearty beings they were, and all the more
discouraging to poor Dabney that no amount of regular and faithful
eating seemed to make him resemble them at all in that respect.
Mrs. Kinzer excused his thinness, to her neighbors, to be sure, on the
ground that he was "such a growing boy;" but, for all that, he caught
himself wondering, now and then, if he would never be done with that
part of his trials. For rapid growth has its trials.
"The fact is," he said to himself one day, as he leaned over the north
fence, "I'm more like Ham Morris's farm than I am like ours. His farm

is bigger than ours, all round;