The book Jack Hall Or the School Days of An American Boy was written by author Grant Robert Here you can read free online of Jack Hall Or the School Days of An American Boy book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Jack Hall Or the School Days of An American Boy a good or bad book?
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But he could count on that comfortable condition of affairs no longer. The continual pegging away referred to, of which he was now the victim, was inexpressibly irritating. His masters — he had a different one in almost every study — excited both his resentment and his wonder by patiently trying to make him take an interest in his tasks. Instead of being ordered in Digitized by VjOOQIC SETTLING DOWN. 236 a peremptory tone to " sit down," after an egre- gious mistake, he was kept upon his feet a...nd not only told the answer (generally from the lips of some other boy), but asked to repeat it, and to remember it too at the next recitation. This was harassing, especially so when he found himself obliged to spend part of the afternoon in the school- room instead of on the playground, because he persisted in considering his lessons of no account. His little soul was fairly in a ferment of indigna- tion. What was the use of study, he would ask himself. As for books, he would be glad for his part never to see another, unless, of course, one of adventures on the sea or in the far West.
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