Pushed by Unseen Hands (Paperback)


Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A HALL OF HEREDITY. the three children born to George and Katherine Hinsdale, the most promising by far was Oswald, the youngest son. Congratulations upon his ability as well as upon his finely shaped head and handsome features had become so familiar to his parents?and indeed to the boy himself? that they were looked upon as quite a matter of course by the time he was a lad ready to enter the High School. The other children envied him the ease with which he mastered his lessons and many were the prophecies as to his future career. No one doubted that he would be a great man. No one questioned his ability to shine in any walk of life that he might choose, and his parents looked upon himas sure to be the prop and stay of their declining years. If the other children got into trouble, Oswald was ready and able to devise a plan to extricate them. He had tact?that rarest of gifts in a boy. If his older brother undertook anything and found himself stranded midway, he would laughingly call Oswald to help him out. " Here, Osie, I'm stuck. This thing won't work at all. Fix it for me, won't you?" It was the same confident cry whether the difficulty were with the wheels of a mechanical toy in process of construction, the solving of a mathematical problem or the adjustment of a refractory necktie. No one doubted that the moment Oswald touched it, it would fall gracefully into place and give no farther trouble. "Well, Os, how did you know that the wheel had to go on that way!" his brother exclaimed one day, as he saw the boy go to his father's assistance in bringing t(x terms an eight-day clock that had refused to strike. Oswald laughed. He had never in his life seen the inside of such a machine before, but he had corrected his father's blunder instantly. "Oh, I don't kn...

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A HALL OF HEREDITY. the three children born to George and Katherine Hinsdale, the most promising by far was Oswald, the youngest son. Congratulations upon his ability as well as upon his finely shaped head and handsome features had become so familiar to his parents?and indeed to the boy himself? that they were looked upon as quite a matter of course by the time he was a lad ready to enter the High School. The other children envied him the ease with which he mastered his lessons and many were the prophecies as to his future career. No one doubted that he would be a great man. No one questioned his ability to shine in any walk of life that he might choose, and his parents looked upon himas sure to be the prop and stay of their declining years. If the other children got into trouble, Oswald was ready and able to devise a plan to extricate them. He had tact?that rarest of gifts in a boy. If his older brother undertook anything and found himself stranded midway, he would laughingly call Oswald to help him out. " Here, Osie, I'm stuck. This thing won't work at all. Fix it for me, won't you?" It was the same confident cry whether the difficulty were with the wheels of a mechanical toy in process of construction, the solving of a mathematical problem or the adjustment of a refractory necktie. No one doubted that the moment Oswald touched it, it would fall gracefully into place and give no farther trouble. "Well, Os, how did you know that the wheel had to go on that way!" his brother exclaimed one day, as he saw the boy go to his father's assistance in bringing t(x terms an eight-day clock that had refused to strike. Oswald laughed. He had never in his life seen the inside of such a machine before, but he had corrected his father's blunder instantly. "Oh, I don't kn...

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General Books LLC

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United States

Release date

February 2012

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February 2012

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246 x 189 x 2mm (L x W x T)

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Paperback - Trade

Pages

76

ISBN-13

978-0-217-53776-6

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9780217537766

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0-217-53776-6



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