Christmas stories
“Two acres! I don’t believe the land’s measured right, anyhow,” said the boy, “and—father, the circus is coming to-day.” Frank stood leaning on his hoe and looking up into his father’s face with that entreaty in his eyes which every loving parent knows so well.
“Two acres! I don’t believe the land’s measured right, anyhow,” said the boy, “and—father, the circus is coming to-day.” Frank stood leaning on his hoe and looking up into his f...
2. Chapter II.Harry Cornwall ran out from the tent to watch the flight of Frank Hallock, who ran, frightened by the tiger, and as the boy disappeared from sight over the hilltop, Harry determ...
3. Chapter III.The house to which Harry Cornwall was carried after he had been thrown from his pony was in Pumpkin Delight Lane. You will perhaps think that this name is not a “real true” name...
4. Chapter IV.As soon as Mrs. Dobson had told the story of her runaway trip to the Southington mountains, she peeped into her bedroom to see how her poor little lad was getting on, and found...
5. Chapter V.Kate Hallock knew just as well as could be that Mrs. Dobson was going to have something nice for dinner, for when Frank went out to order her home a savory odor followed him. Sh...
6. Chapter VI.Kate Hallock had no sooner shut the front door of the brown house in Pumpkin Delight Lane on that eventful day in June, than Harry Cornwall remembered the necklace story.
7. Chapter VII.“I’m just as sure as anything that there’ll be a letter to-day from that Mr. Blake up in Maine, and I wish Hugo would hurry up and go to the postoffice, before he goes for Harry...
8. Chapter VIII.“Why not, Kittie, my Clover?” replied the little woman (with a soft tenderness in her heart that gave a winsome look to her face) as she glanced upward, for Mrs. Dobson was busy...
9. Chapter IX.Kate Hallock was drawing near to Mrs. Dobson’s house in the lane. “Dear grandma!” she called, “I’m just perishing with hunger! I’m starved nearly to death! I’ve had no breakfast...
10. Chapter X.As the darkness grew into the room where Frank Hallock was prisoned, the boy’s misery grew around his heart. Over and over to himself he said: “I am sorry I struck Kate; but I w...
11. Chapter XI.School began in the tower room of the house at Hallock Point. Harry Cornwall went to the lessons because he eagerly sought knowledge. Kate Hallock tried to study because she wis...
12. Chapter XII.September was come, and the day on which Frank was to go to school was drawing very near. Frank himself was devoting every minute that he could get to bluefishing, and became ve...
13. Chapter XIII.Grandma Dobson, with a snowy white cap sitting demurely upon her silver curls, sat in the blue rocking chair, knitting a gray sock. She was in the open doorway and it was near s...
14. Chapter XIV.“And I told him, Frank,” she went on to say, as he stood glowering at her from his superior height, “that the boat cost—I mean that papa paid forty—”
15. Chapter XV.As Frank rowed down the harbor in the morning, he saw himself clearly, in the light of conscience, as a selfish, contemptible brother. He admitted to himself that he ought to ha...
16. Chapter XVI.“The boy is safe enough at the island,” said every one of the boatmen to whom Mr. Hallock applied for advice concerning the proper thing to do. Mr. Hallock himself believed that...
17. Chapter XVII.After a night of blissful rest in his own bed at home, Frank wrote with absolute good will to Mr. North, delivering over to his ownership the _Clover_, then in care of a boatman...