Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
I suppose I must follow the fashion of all story-tellers, and introduce my young readers to the Haven family, one by one. I grant it is rather tiresome, but you know, the first thing in the study of grammar is to get some knowledge of all the little parts which make up the gre...
Mr. Havens could hardly believe his sleepy eyes, as, wakened at sunrise by the sound of booming cannon and distant church bells, he parted his curtains and saw--yes, really saw,...
13. CHAPTER XIV.One o’clock finds the girls, boys, nurses, dollies, and big Ranger escorting Mamma to the shore, where Jem, Ned, and Kit threw off their coats, which Artie saw meant work, and s...
3. CHAPTER IV.“Dippity dash, dippity dash, Wash his face with a merry splash! Polish it well with a towel fine,-- Oh, how his eyes and his cheeks will shine! Dippity dash, dippity dash.”
8. CHAPTER IX.“Oh, Auntie dear, isn’t this most like Heaven,” breaks out little Bear, lying by his Auntie’s side, on soft cushions, under the great Elm’s leafy canopy, drinking in the soft co...
10. CHAPTER XI.Mr. Havens and his aunt were sitting in the garden on their return from their country excursion; the little ones were sound asleep in their nests, and Artie and his sister were...
4. CHAPTER V.“O children! come and look at me! Was ever rain in such a glee As I have been all day? Drop chasing drop most merrily, Jostling each other clumsily, You’d think we were in play.
2. CHAPTER III.The last bell has sounded, the last trunk been hurled into the baggage-car, the last “All aboard” has been shouted, and the “Shore-Line Express Train,” with its precious load of...
6. CHAPTER VII.“No, no, Charlie,” sounded Rosie’s beseeching tones, “come and help me gather mullein-leaves for dollies’ blankets, and these cunning pot-cheeses to play store with. See, Celia...
14. CHAPTER XV.It is evening, and the family party, young and old, are gathered on the porch, talking over the pleasures of the past day, whilst Ranger lies close at Mr. Harwood’s feet.
7. CHAPTER VIII.It is four o’clock, and a lively scene is taking place before the Funny house on Funny street. The roomy carriage, drawn up before the door, is being packed by Papa, whilst Hugh...
11. CHAPTER XII.“Over the river and through the wood, To have a first-rate play. Over the river and through the wood, And straight through the barn-yard gate We seem to go Extremely slow,-- It...
15. CHAPTER XVI.“You are to have a couple of hours more for your country frolics, and then, just think of it, this kind Uncle Fred proposes to take us all, on our homeward journey, in his yacht...
9. CHAPTER X.Aunt Emma and good Mrs. Brown sat in the cool cottage parlor talking, when, suddenly, the door was thrown hurriedly open, and the two little boys dashed in, whilst Roly-poly Ros...
5. CHAPTER VI.Tuesday morning dawns brightly, and Tuesday’s sun soon dries up the gravelled garden walks and shady croquet ground of Aunt Emma’s pleasant, roomy garden, where the merry party...
1. CHAPTER II.I suppose I must follow the fashion of all story-tellers, and introduce my young readers to the Haven family, one by one. I grant it is rather tiresome, but you know, the first...
16. CHAPTER XVII.“It was nine years back, or more--if I don’t forget; But as to the children, Fannie, they’re all about me yet. Often they come to the door, in a pleasant kind of dream, They com...