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Bealby; a Holiday
When thirteen-year-old Bealby rebels against his position as a servant boy in a grand English estate, he runs away after disrupting an important weekend party.
"Bealby: A Holiday" by H. G. Wells is a comic novel. When thirteen-year-old Bealby rebels against his position as a servant boy in a grand English estate, he runs away after disrupting an important weekend party.
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The cat is the offspring of a cat and the dog of a dog, but butlers and lady’s maids do not reproduce their kind. They have other duties.
So their successors have to be sought among the prolific, and particularly among the prolific on great estates. Such are gardeners, but not under-gardeners, gamekeepers, and coachmen—but not lodge people, because their years are too great and their lodges too small. And among those to whom this opportunity of entering service came was young Bealby, who was the stepson of Mr. Darling, the gardener of Shonts.
Contents
- 01Chapter I Young Bealby Goes to Shonts
- 02Chapter II a Week-End at Shonts
- 03Chapter III the Wanderers
- 04Chapter IV the Unobtrusive Parting
- 05Chapter V the Seeking of Bealby
- 06Chapter VI Bealby and the Tramp
- 07Chapter VII the Battle of Crayminster
- 08Chapter VIII How Bealby Explained
- 09Transcriber’s Notes
About this edition
- Author
- H. G. Wells
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Intermediate: some philosophy helps
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 261 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers