Charlie to the Rescue

By: Ballantyne, Robert Michael

To be generally helpful was one of the chief points in the character of CharlieBrooke.He was evidently born to aid mankind. He began by helping himself to everything inlife that seemed at all desirable. This was natural, not selfish.At first there were few things, apparently, that did seem to his infant minddesirable, for his earliest days were marked by a sort of chronic crossness thatseemed quite unaccountable in one so healthy; but this was eventually traced to theinfluence of pins injudiciously disposed about the person by nurse. Possibly thisexperience may have tended to develop a spirit of brave endurance, and mightperhaps account for the beautiful modifications of character that weresubsequently observed in him. At all events, sweet, patient amiability was aprevailing feature in the boy long before the years of infancy were over, and thisheavenly aspect of him was pleasantly diversified, in course of time, by occasionaldisplays of resolute-we might almost say heroic-self-will, which proved aconstant source of mingled pride and alarm to his widowed mother.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0932CXBWC
• ISBN13: 9798741956953
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.0" x 10.0"