Project Gutenberg 2025-04-30 Public domain in the USA. 159 Paget, Francis Edward 1806 1882 Paget, F. E. (Francis Edward) Paget, Francis E. The bonfire $aRugeley :$bJohn Thomas Walters, $c1844. Tales of the village children, 3 David E. Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Toronto Public Library) "The bonfire by Francis Edward Paget" is a moral tale, likely written in the mid-1800s during the Victorian era. The book is a short story intended for children, set in a rural English village, and focuses on community values, behavior, and lessons in character. At its heart, the narrative revolves around the events leading up to and following an annual Guy Fawkes night celebration, using this traditional setting to address broader themes of honesty, responsibility, and restitution. The story centers on a group of village boys who, after mistreating a reclusive old man named Jasper Crabbe and carelessly sparking an accident during their bonfire festivities, must confront the consequences of their actions. Their carelessness results in a fire that destroys the winter hay supply of a poor widow, Dinah Marjoram. Guided by their vicar, Mr. Warlingham, and with practical help from Jasper Crabbe, the boys work together to make amends, raising the money needed to compensate Dinah by cultivating and selling produce from a communal garden. Through their efforts, they learn the value of communal responsibility, the importance of honesty, and the satisfaction of making amends—concluding with a lesson about charitable giving and cooperation in the spirit of Christian duty. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://digitalarchive.tpl.ca/objects/294345/the-bonfire?ctx=56c2aebee5e86befc0c9d39789e31ab559c4675a&idx=0 20250327083913paget 1844 GB Reading ease score: 82.2 (6th grade). Easy to read. en Fires -- Juvenile fiction Obedience -- Juvenile fiction Guy Fawkes Day -- Juvenile fiction PZ Text Category: Short Stories Category: Children & Young Adult Reading Category: British Literature 74476 2025-06-30T05:57:16.092737 text/html 49591 2025-04-30T09:55:16 text/html 696579 2025-06-30T05:57:19.305762 application/epub+zip 695146 2025-06-30T05:57:17.191792 application/epub+zip 225055 2025-06-30T05:57:16.558767 application/epub+zip 1375130 2025-06-30T05:57:20.843748 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1108964 2025-06-30T05:57:18.807760 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 61800 2025-06-30T05:57:15.871740 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 41954 2025-04-30T09:55:16 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 16559 2025-06-30T05:57:20.973715 application/rdf+xml 24338 2025-06-30T05:57:16.756752 image/jpeg 2945 2025-06-30T05:57:16.655749 image/jpeg 1168502 2025-06-30T05:57:16.125740 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia