Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
Terry O’Connor always declared he was born under a happy star, and he also maintained that at the time of his coming into the world it had danced for very joy. This statement, which no matter how much others might doubt but could not dispute, he had direct from his mother’s mo...
Terry O’Connor always declared he was born under a happy star, and he also maintained that at the time of his coming into the world it had danced for very joy. This statement, w...
2. CHAPTER II“Faith, ’twas because I was mesilf--jest a slip av a babe that wud have gladdened your eyes to see. ’Twas a happy shtar, an’ it came geekin’ in at the windy,--An’ how are ye, me...
3. CHAPTER IIIThe air bit more keenly, for the afternoon was wearing on; already the dazzling sparkles had vanished from the snow, and rosy sunbeams slipped among the glistening tree shafts a...
4. CHAPTER IVIt was a large, roughly-finished room, lighted for the most part by the great heap of logs that blazed on the hearth, though a lantern fixed against the wall, at the opposite si...
5. CHAPTER VToward midnight somebody stepped close to the improvised bed and stood looking down with troubled eyes at the child curled up among the blankets there. The light from the low fi...
6. CHAPTER VIThe day was several hours older when Humphrey and Elisabeth Shawe started for Thornby’s camp. Before that time, however, poor Uncle Steven, weary and disheartened and looking su...