Little Prudy's Captain Horace

"O, it looks like a little baked apple, all wrinkled up; but it's right sweet. Ugh!" added Horace, making a wry face; "you better look out when they're green: they pucker your m...

I. Making Candy II. Camping Out III. Taking a Journey IV. At Grandpa Parlin's V. Captain of a Company VI. Susie and Prudy VII. In the Woods VIII. Captain Clifford IX. The Blue B...

This was not all: A little neighbor, Gilbert Brown, came to the house at all hours, and between the two boys there was a noise of driving nails, firing pop-guns, shouting and ru...

"Yes," chimed in Grace, pushing back her beautiful curls, "you don't know how ma and I fret about you. You'll kill poor ma before ever we can get you East!"

If Grace, or Susie, or Prudy went up to him, he made no sign. It was only when he saw his little master that he would wag his tail for joy; but even that effort seemed to tire h...

I wish all little girls felt as much interest in their younger brothers as this sister felt in Horace. Grace had her faults, of which I might have told you if I had been writing...