Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
THERE were seven Pitchers in the family,—Judge Pitcher and his wife and five children; but, as the twins were the youngest of all, they were often called “the Little Pitchers.”
POLLIO didn’t learn much during his first term at school, except mischief. He learned to whoop like a wild Indian, and stand on his head like the clown at a circus. Eliza said t...
6. CHAPTER VI.“Is Dr. Field any _’lation_ to you, Mr. _Little_field?” asked Pollio anxiously; and was very glad to learn he was not. Pollio loved Mr. Littlefield dearly; but he would never lo...
10. CHAPTER X.AFTER a lovely ride of twenty miles the carriage stopped at a large yellow farm-house in the midst of trees and flowers. Hop-clover hoped this was Mr. Littlefield’s home; for it...
1. CHAPTER I.THERE were seven Pitchers in the family,—Judge Pitcher and his wife and five children; but, as the twins were the youngest of all, they were often called “the Little Pitchers.”
4. CHAPTER IV.THE moment Dr. Field arrived, Pollio set up a perfect howl. The doctor was a cross-looking man, with black eyebrows that met over his nose, and the children had always been afra...
8. CHAPTER VIII.ELIZA was cross all day; but, as Dick said, the crosser she was, the better she cooked. At any rate, there was food enough next morning, and of the most delicious sort, to fill...
5. CHAPTER V.POLLIO was better next day, and still better the day after. By the time his father came home he was feeling as well as ever, and the sad affair was almost forgotten.
11. CHAPTER XI.BUT Pollio’s conscience was not easy. He danced about as if the barn-floor were covered with thistles and every step hurt him. As he flew from barrel to hay-mow, and from hay-mo...
9. CHAPTER IX.ONE day after Posy was quite well, she sat by the roadside near the house, moulding doll’s furniture out of clay. A little soft chair about as big as a grasshopper stood drying...
7. CHAPTER VII.A whole year had passed since the twins began to go to school, and nearly a year since Pollio was hurt. People had almost forgotten the time when he crept on all-fours; for he w...
2. CHAPTER II.As they were trudging along with Teddy and the dog on the first morning, feeling very happy and very important, Edith called aunt Ann to see how cunning they looked,—Posy in a w...
12. CHAPTER XII.“Oh, I’ve had a _beautiful_ time!” said little Hop-clover with a sigh of joy; and then she sighed again, to think she was going away to her miserable home, and never, never, sho...