Aunt Jimmy's Will

About four o'clock Mrs. Lane seated herself on the front porch to sew. She was dressed in a clean print gown, with her collar fastened by a large photograph "miniature" pin of J...

No one noticed how red the boy's cheeks were and how his eyes shone, as he hurried from supper to learn his lessons, that he might have time in the morning to begin his search f...

"Janey's close by here and grandma," said Lammy, presently, "so it won't be a bit lonesome for your father, and I was hoping to-day that he'd remember to tell Janey that you're...

At first the poor child was content to sit quite still and rest, trying to realize who and where she was. The changes of the past two weeks had been so sudden that she did not y...

A shout from above next attracted Bird, and looking up she saw her uncle leaning out of the window and calling to them to come up for breakfast. Billy could hop downstairs quite...

"You went up that way all right, and a-spookin' around the house. Everything was tight fast, and so the only place you could get in was by crawlin' through the cellar winder, wh...

"My mother learned long ago in the Convent in the old country, but her hands are too stiff to make it now, and besides she says it wouldn't pay her. So she showed me the stitch...

Joshua looked to the sale of the furniture to at least pay the last quarter's rent due. By a strange happening the afternoon before the vendue was to take place, as he was about...

As he turned the wagon about, with much backing and rasping of cramped wheels, the bright silver dollar that was lying in the dirt caught his eye. It seemed like a slap in the f...

After the new room was arranged, and permission given to Bird to see that Billy had what the doctor ordered that he should eat, and to take him out whenever he wanted to go, eve...

Without saying another word, Lammy, the meek, the boy-girl in name, flew at 'Ram with such suddenness, beating and buffetting him, that the big boy was knocked down before he kn...

As the man said, "Yah! ha!" equally loud to every question, Joshua thought no harm could come from that quarter, and proceeded to open the blinds of the kitchen windows and make...

Bird O'More crouched in a little black heap in the corner of the sofa that stood between the closed windows in the farmhouse sitting room. Her eyes, that looked straight before...

So the old furniture was recovered with a suitable dull green corduroy, and some comfortable Morris chairs added, "that pa and the boys wouldn't be tempted to set back on the hi...