The Cruise of the Dolphin

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The text calls itself an episode from The Story of a Bad Boy, the narrator being Tom Bailey, the hero of the tale. The text says every Rivermouth boy looks upon the sea as being in some way mixed up with his destiny. The narrator says he longed to buy a part of the trim little sailboat Dolphin. Phil Adams, Fred Langdon, and Binny Wallace had already taken three shares, at five or six dollars each, the narrator forgets which.

The narrator had four dollars and fifty cents on hand, and the treasurer of the Centipedes, a secret society composed of twelve boys of the Temple Grammar School, Rivermouth, advanced him the balance. Binny Wallace is seen standing in the bows with his arms stretched helplessly, drifting out to sea. The narrator says Captain Nutter put him to bed between hot blankets and sent Kitty Collins for the doctor.

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Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836-1907) was an American writer, poet, critic and editor. He edited The Atlantic Monthly for many years and published writers such as Charles W. Chesnutt there. His semi-autobiographical book "The Story of a Bad Boy" gave rise to the bad boy's book subgenre in nineteenth-century American literature.