Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
JUNE morning, clear and cool as October, and everything far and near fairly revelling in the early summer sunshine. The Potomac, blue as the sky above it, sparkling and dancing, the new young leaves on the oak trees shimmering and shining with the marvellous green of springtim...
JUNE morning, clear and cool as October, and everything far and near fairly revelling in the early summer sunshine. The Potomac, blue as the sky above it, sparkling and dancing,...
2. CHAPTER II.--COURAGE TAKES HEART.This time, as before, there is a story to tell because of something braved and dared for Miss Julia’s sake; something that needed less nerve, perhaps, than the leap Courage took...
3. CHAPTER III.--A DELIGHTFUL DISCOVERY.“Oh, yes,” said Joe, turning slowly round, for he knew what had attracted Brevet’s attention. “I done notice it on de way up ter Ellismere fo’ you dis mornin’, an’ den I was so...
4. CHAPTER IV.--EVERYBODY HAPPY.It is strange and beautiful,” thought Courage as she moved busily about her room, putting one thing and another into a trunk that stood open before the fireplace; “strange and b...
5. CHAPTER V.--HOWDYAnd meantime what excitement in the little cottage down in Virginia! Everything was in readiness and everybody was on the tiptoe of expectation. Everybody meant Mary Duff, (it w...
6. CHAPTER VI.--ARLINGTON BEFORE THE WAR.No sooner were our little New Yorkers settled in their pretty summer home than they naturally desired that it should have a name, and after much discussion, according to the Ben...
7. CHAPTER VII.--ARLINGTON AFTERWARD.“H’m,” said Joe, pressing his lower lip over the upper one, as he had a habit of doing when he considered any matter required careful thought. Then after a pause, “Well, your la...
8. CHAPTER VIII.--TO SAVE BREVET.Between one happy time and another the summer passed on at Little Homespun. Not that there was not occasionally an unhappy time--if everything had moved perfectly smoothly for t...
9. CHAPTER IX.--JOE HAS AN’ IDEA.It was two weeks now since that dreadful afternoon up at Ellismere, and it has been a quiet two weeks for all of our little party. No one has had the heart for very much fun, fo...
10. CHAPTER X.--BREVET SCORES A POINT.“Is anybody going to die in this chapter?” asked a little girl who is very dear to me, as we were reading aloud last evening. The chapter had certainly a rather ominous title, a...
11. CHAPTER XI.--A RED-LETTER AFTERNOON.They were a happy trio that set out for Arlington a half hour later. Harry and Courage walked closely, side by side, for there was much to be said that could not by any chance h...