Brite and Fair

Plupy #8

by Henry A. Shute

Excerpt from Brite and Fair
June 2th, 186- sunday nite. i have been to chirch and sunday school today, not to the unitarial. we are going to the congrigasional now becaus Keene and Cele are singing in the quire. so we go there. i had ruther go to the unitarial becaus Beany and Pewt go there. Beany blows the organ and sum-times he peeks out behine the organ and maiks a feerful face and maiks everybody laff. once Beany he thummed his nose to old Chipper Burly. Chipper he was the sunday school supperintendent and was beeting time for the scholers to sing and Chipper he tirned round quick and see Beany, and Chipper he jest hipered into the organ log and grabed Beany by the coler and yanked him out of the lof and wauked him out of the chirch. then he got Micky Goold to blow the organ and Beany he lost his gob for 2 sundays, but Micky went to sleep 2 or 3 times and snoared feerful and they had to waik him up and once he hollered rite out loud, so Mickey he lost his gob and they got Beany back.
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Genres: Fiction, Humor

290 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1920

About the author

Born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Shute was a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy (1875) and Harvard University (1879). In the 1890s, the Exeter News-Letter began publishing a weekly column of Shute's recollections of his boyhood in Exeter.

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Reviews

[Kenneth · Rating 5 out of 5]

First read this one in my Junior High years, from a copy my parents had. This book is totally madcap. It purports to be the diary of the author when he was a boy in the late 1860's. He, known as Plupy to his friends, Beany and Pewt, get into the most hilarious situations.

[Jana Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

I first read this as a child, probably around age 10, and found it absolutely hilarious. I'm now reading my ancient (stained and poorly repaired) copy to my kids out loud -- even though the language and culture has changed hugely since it was written, the shenanigans this boy gets up to are still relatable and so, so funny.