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Ethelred Preston; or, The Adventures of a Newcomer

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)

Year of Publication: 1896Genres: Religion

Running Time: 04 hours 55 minutes 57 seconds

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