Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
ONE lovely spring morning, in the latter end of May, Osric Dennison and his sister Elsie were getting ready to go to school. The school was at Boonville, almost a mile from their father's house, though there was a "cross-lot" path which shortened the distance. And as Osric and...
ONE lovely spring morning, in the latter end of May, Osric Dennison and his sister Elsie were getting ready to go to school. The school was at Boonville, almost a mile from thei...
2. mill. Standing among the trees on the side of this road, and lookingacross the stream, you see something which strikes you as rather curious in such a place. This is neither more nor less than a handsome burial-vault built into the steep side of...
3. CHAPTER II.AS Osric and Elsie stood looking and wondering at the unusual spectacle, they were joined by two or three of the other children—by Anna Lee and her sister Hetty, by David Parson...
4. CHAPTER III.It was a beautiful place. The river ran sparkling along, and made a cheerful, pleasant murmur against its banks. Just above the dam it was still and glassy, and poured over the...
5. CHAPTER IV.IT was even so. Christopher, in the midst of his distress and fear, had not observed that the service was concluded. He had slipped out of sight behind a piece of projecting mas...
6. CHAPTER V.Mrs. Parsons waited till supper-time without much alarm. She thought Christopher had perhaps stopped to play with the children who lived near the school-house—a thing he sometim...