The Crofton Boys

Hugh's afternoon lessons were harder than those of the morning; and in the evening he found he had so much to do that there was very little time left for writing his letter home...

When the day came for returning to Crofton, Hugh would have left his crutches behind at his uncle's, so much did he prefer walking with the little light stick-leg he had been pr...

Mr. Proctor, the chemist and druggist, kept his shop, and lived in the Strand, London. His children thought that there was never anything pleasanter than the way they lived. The...

Hugh found, in the morning, that there was no danger of his not hearing the bell. Its clang clang startled him out of a sound sleep; and he was on his feet on the floor almost b...

Hugh, meantime, was counting the hours till Saturday. Perhaps, if the truth were known, so was Phil, though he was too old to acknowledge such a longing. But the climbing about...

The boys were all in the school-room in the grey of the morning;--no one late. Mr. Tooke was already there. Almost every boy looked wistfully in the grave face of the master;--a...

Hugh got on far better with his lessons as he grew more intimate with Dale. It was not so much that Dale helped him with his grammar and construing (for Dale thought every boy s...

Hugh was about to ask his mother, again and again during their walk, why Mr. Tooke let him go to Crofton before he was ten; but Mrs. Proctor was grave and silent; and though she...

Mrs. Shaw ordered dinner presently; and while it was being served, she desired Phil to brush his brother's clothes, as they were dusty from his ride. All the while he was brushi...

There was no reason now why Hugh should not go to church. He and his crutches went between his uncle and aunt in the gig one way, and between his uncle and Agnes home again; and...

Though Mr. Tooke was so busy from having no usher, he found time to come and see Hugh pretty often. He had a sofa moved into that room: and he carried Hugh, without hurting him...

After Mr. Proctor had come and was gone, and Mrs. Proctor was gone with him, Hugh began to wonder why Tooke had never paid the visit he had promised. Several boys had called; so...

After tea the young people had to learn their lessons for the next day. They always tried to get these done, and the books put away, before Mr. Proctor came in on his shop being...

Nothing more was heard by Hugh, or any one else, of Lamb's debt. The creditor himself chose to say nothing about it, so much was he annoyed at being considered fond of money: bu...

tiresome, that, when I thought of all the exercises I should have to write for Miss Harold, and all the letters that I must send to my relations when I grew up, I would have giv...

The longer these two boys were together, the more they wished that they could spend their lives side by side; or, at least, not be separated by half the globe. Just before the C...