Ethelred Preston; or, The Adventures of a Newcomer


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Ethelred Preston is a story for boys written by Fr. Finn, SJ. The hero, Ethelred, while on his way to college, meets Packy Jarloe, a peddler, who induces him to change places with himself, so that Packy goes to Henrytown College, announcing himself as Ethelred Preston, while Ethelred takes Packy's peddler's pack and sets out on the road to make his fortune There is a mixture of the ludicrous and serious in what follows, but the fraud is finally discovered and Ethelred after much suffering finds himself installed as a regular student and universal favorite at Henrytown College. (From Donahoe's Magazine #37, 1897) (4 hr 55 min)

Chapters

A Letter from Ethelred's Mamma 13:24 Read by Tim Quinn
In Which Things Begin to Go Badly with Earl Meriwether 10:05 Read by James Brinson
The Story of Earl 12:37 Read by James Brinson
Master Ethelred Preston 7:30 Read by James Brinson
In Which Ethelred Proposes to Run Away 18:03 Read by James Brinson
Ethelred Puts On the Boxing Gloves 9:40 Read by James Brinson
Ethelred in the Frying Pan 13:23 Read by KHand
In Which Ed Devereux Proposes to Help Ethelred to Run Away 13:45 Read by KHand
In Which Ethelred Finds it Hard to Sleep Undisturbed 15:52 Read by Tim Quinn
In Which Earl Meriwether Receives Another Public Abmonition 16:11 Read by Tim Quinn
In Which Ethelred Takes More Rope than Devereux Had Counted Upon 7:29 Read by AnnieG
In Which Ethelred "Gets Religion" and Turns Over a New Leaf 14:03 Read by AnnieG
In Which Ethelred Becomes More Mysterious and Earl More Heroic 12:55 Read by AnnieG
In Which Earl Has a Momentous Invterview with Father Noland 15:27 Read by AnnieG
In Which the Darling Goes into Business and the Midgets into Bankruptcy 27:03 Read by AnnieG
In Which Eddie Devereux Becomes a Godfather 7:35 Read by AnnieG
In Which Darling Runs Away in Good Earnest 14:06 Read by Tim Quinn
A Memorable Morning 10:30 Read by Samson Cayce
Ethelred Preston, Brighton, Albany Villa 6:13 Read by Tim Quinn
Why Ethelred Failed to Reach Henryton in Due Time 35:57 Read by Tim Quinn
In Which Ethelred Finds the Best of Mothers 6:28 Read by James R. Hedrick
Chapter the Last 7:41 Read by Lucretia B.