David Malcolm

The Project Gutenberg EBook of David Malcolm, by Nelson LloydThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.orgTitle: David MalcolmAuthor: Nelson LloydRelease Date: December 5, 2007 [EBook #23741]Language: English*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK DAVID MALCOLM ***Produced by Al HainesDAVID MALCOLMBYNELSON LLOYDCHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONSNEW YORK1913COPYRIGHT, 1913, BYCHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONSPublished August, 1913TOTHE RARE, SWEET MEMORY OFSUSANNE LIVINGSTON GREEN LLOYDMY WIFE AND THE DEAR COMPANIONWHO WORKEDWITH ME OVER THESE PAGESDAVID MALCOLMCHAPTER I"Take care not to tumble into the water, David," said my mother.She was standing by the gate, and from my perch on the back of the off-wheeler, I smiled down on her with boyish self-assurance. The idea of my tumbling into the water! The idea of my drowning even did I meet with so ludicrous a mishap!But I was accustomed to my mother's anxious care, for as an only child there had fallen to me a double portion ofmaternal solicitude. In moments of stress and pain it came as a grateful balm; yet more often, as now, it was irritating tomy growing sense of self-reliance. To show how little I heeded her admonition, how well able I was to take care of myself,as I smiled loftily from my dangerous perch, ...