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Sep 15, 2018 · Well two updates since I bought this. (1) First the rifle smith Mr. Penrod did NOT make the rail-gun block (above) that came with the barreled action. No idea who did. (2) I don't have a rail gun and couldn't let the block go to waste, and wanted a bench stock for it.
Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914. The book follows the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States, in a similar vein to The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
- Booth Tarkington, Grant Gordon
- 1914
Sep 6, 2011 · The Penrod Anschutz is suffering from the "have too many guns syndrome," and a propensity to move on. There's also a Kenyon 1913 suffering the same fate. I blame Doug for steering me away from the heavy guns, and myself for wanting to be a better shot with lightweight Sporters while standing.
Penrod, comic novel by Booth Tarkington, published in 1914. Its protagonist, Penrod Schofield, a 12-year-old boy who lives in a small Midwestern city, rebels against his parents and teachers and experiences the baffling ups and downs of preadolescence. Tarkington expertly conveys the speech and.
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- Allegory. An allegory is a story that is used to represent a more general message about real-life (historical) issues and/or events. It is typically an entire book, novel, play, etc.
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- Anachronism. An anachronism occurs when there is an (intentional) error in the chronology or timeline of a text. This could be a character who appears in a different time period than when he actually lived, or a technology that appears before it was invented.
Mar 3, 2018 · Choking upon it, Penrod slid down from the fence, and with slow and thoughtful steps entered a one-storied wing of the stable, consisting of a single apartment, floored with cement and used as a storeroom for broken bric-a-brac, old paint-buckets, decayed garden-hose, worn-out carpets, dead furniture, and other condemned odds and ends not yet considered hopeless enough to be given away.
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A timeless novel in the spirited tradition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry FinnOne of the most popular American authors of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Pulitzer Prize winner B
