Sonny Boy

Polly was so lively on the way back to the city that Sonny Boy didn't dare to take her into a passenger-car. The smoking-car happened to be almost empty, and the conductor said...

Sonny Boy had received a large square ticket, marked "Season," and "Complimentary," and in the same envelope was a slip of paper on which was written, "_Ask for J. Simpkins at t...

Mamma Plummer read a letter at the dinner-table before she touched her soup. She had been having visitors and had not had time to look at it before. And she was always in a hurr...

Sonny Boy set out, all alone, for the city in which Aunt Kate lived. Papa Plummer thought that any kind of a boy of ten ought to be able to make a little journey like that alone.

"Otto, the mice boy has come to see you!" she said to a white-faced, humpbacked boy, who sat propped up in a chair, at a table, with the cage of mice before him.

"I had my white mice in a cage just about as large as this. You ought to see them! Trixie and I have drilled them into two armies, American and Spanish, and we've got the comman...

PAGE Sonny Boy Frontispiece "'Aunt Kate wants Sonny Boy,' she said." 21 "Sonny Boy went into the car." 29 "He told her which were Spaniards." 33 "The coachman used his fists to...