# The Jimmyjohns, and other stories Author: Diaz, Abby Morton, 1821-1904 Genre: Category: Short Stories Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/70939 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Jimmyjohns%2C+and+other+stories+Diaz&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary A pretty brown cottage, so small that the vines have no need to hurry themselves in climbing over it, but take plenty of time to creep along the eaves, to peep in at the windows, and even to stop and weave bowers over the doorways. Two “Baldwin” trees shade one end of the cottage, a silver-oak the other. In its rather narrow front-yard grow damask rose-bushes, sweet syringas, and a snowball-tree. In one corner of this front-yard a running-rose, called a “pink prairie-rose,” climbs to the cottage-roof, where it has delightful times with the honeysuckle and woodbine. On either side, and round about and far away, lie broad green meadows, apple-orchards, fields of waving corn, and many a slop... ## Chapters - [CHAPTER IX.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/10/index.md) - [SCENE VII. (_chiefly a tableau_).—LADY C. _sits with her arm round](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/17/index.md) - [CHAPTER VIII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/9/index.md) - [CHAPTER VII.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/8/index.md) - [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/3/index.md) - [CHAPTER VI.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/7/index.md) - [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/2/index.md) - [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/1/index.md) - [did. Jimmy found Snip, and then went along to a shady place under a](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/5/index.md) - [CHAPTER V.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/6/index.md) - [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/4/index.md) - [SCENE II.—_Pretended gypsies seated in a tent, or on the](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/12/index.md) - [SCENE VI.—TRAMP _and his_ WIFE. _Old bags, bundles, and baskets](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/16/index.md) - [SCENE IV.—TOMKINS, _in flashy costume, preparing for the show.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/14/index.md) - [SCENE III.—_Enter_ FLORA _and_ ELSIE, _hand in hand. Both have](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/13/index.md) - [SCENE I.—LADY C. _reclining in arm-chair. Enter_ MARGERY _with vase](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/11/index.md) - [SCENE V.—LADY CAROLINE _reclining in her chair. She rings a bell.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-jimmyjohns-and-other-stories-70939/chapters/15/index.md)