The complete bostock and harris : The strange affair of adelaide harris & the night of the comet

A New York Review Children's Collection Original The Complete Bostock and Harris combines two delightful, suspenseful, and madly funny tales of Harris and the not-so-bright Bostock, a rollicking best-friend duo who've been through thick and thin together in eighteenth-century Brighton. In the "The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris," the wily pair put their classics education to the test when they adopt the Spartan custom of exposing infants to the wild, leaving Harris's infant sister, Adelaide, to the elements. The boys hope a wolf will nourish and care for her, but their plan backfires in a riotous and clever turn of events. It is springtime in "The Night of the Comet," and in the days before Pigott's comet will pass over their town, Harris's and Bostock's thoughts turn to love. Bostock becomes enamored with Harris's sister Mary, while Harris falls in love with Captain Bostock's telescope. The two boys make a deal: Bostock will make off... A New York Review Children's Collection Original The Complete Bostock and Harris combines two delightful, suspenseful, and madly funny tales about two boys in eighteenth-century England, clever and mischievous Harris and sweet but not-so-bright Bostock, who in spite of their differences are the best of friends. In “The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris,” the wily pair put their classical education to the test when they adopt the Spartan custom of exposing infants to the wild, leaving Harris’s infant sister, Adelaide, to the elements. The boys imagine a wolf will come to nourish her, but their plan backfires. It is springtime in “The Night of the Comet,” and in the days before Pigott’s comet will pass over their town, Harris’s and Bostock’s thoughts turn to love: Bostock swoons over Harris’s sister Mary; Harris longs for Captain Bostock’s telescope. The boys strike a deal: Bostock will make off with the telescope in exchange for Harris’s “expert” wooing advice. Unfortunately, that expertise is not quite what Bostock would have hoped. A New York Review Children's Collection Original The Complete Bostock and Harris combines two delightful, suspenseful, and madly funny tales about two boys in eighteenth-century England, clever and mischievous Harris and sweet but not-so-bright Bostock, who in spite of their differences are the best of friends.#160; In The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris, the wily pair put their classical education to the test when they adopt the Spartan custom of exposing infants to the wild, leaving Harriss infant sister, Adelaide, to the elements. The boys imagine a wolf will come to nourish her, but their plan backfires.#160; It is springtime in The Night of the Comet, and in the days before Pigotts comet will pass over their town, Harriss and Bostocks thoughts turn to love: Bostock swoons over Harriss sister Mary; Harris longs for Captain Bostocks telescope. The boys strike a deal: Bostock will make off with the telescope in exchange for Harriss expert wooing advice. Unfortunately, that expertise is not quite what Bostock would have hoped Two stories published separately in the 1970s, in the first of which Harris offers Bostock the affections of his sister in exchange for the brass telescope of Bostock's father and starts a string of misunderstandings about who is courting whom, and in the second, the boys experiment to see if a wolf will adopt Harris's infant sister, Adelaide.