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Harry Milvaine
The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy
By Gordon Stables
Published by Hodder and Stoughton, 27 Paternoster Row, London.
This edition dated 1887.

Harry Milvaine, by Gordon Stables.

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HARRY MILVAINE, BY GORDON STABLES.

Book 1--CHAPTER ONE.

IN THE LAND OF BROWN HEATH.

CHILD HAROLD.

Young Harry Milvaine stood beside the water-tank, and the water-tank
itself stood just outside the back kitchen door.  He was hardly high
enough, however, to look right over it and down into it, though it was
full to the brim--overflowing in fact, and the water still pouring in
from the spout that led from the house-top.  But Harry was of an
inventive turn of mind, young though he was, so he went and fetched a
stable bucket, and very heavy he thought it; but when he turned this
upside down and mounted on the bottom, he was possessed of a coign of
vantage which was all that could be desired.

Harry had mastered the situation.

He now watched with intense interest the bright clear bubbles that were
floating about on the surface.  Bright clear bubbles they were and large
as well, and in them was a miniature reflection of all the surroundings,
the Portuguese laurel trees, the Austrian pines, the vases on the stone
pillars of the gate, with their trailing drapery of blood-red
nasturtiums, the rose-clad gable of the stable, and last but not least
his own wondering face itself.  And a queer little face it was, no
saying what it might turn like in after life.  Neither fat nor lean was
it, certainly not chubby, regular in features, and somewhat pale.  But
it was Harry's eyes that people admired; that is, whenever Harry stood
long enough still to permit of