This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...a squash seed which grew so fast that one of the squashes ran away with the boy on top of it, traveling as fast as an express train. How the little girls laughed at that funny way of traveling. "I'd be willing to run a race with that squash to-day," said Uncle Ned. "Here we are at. Nugentville in just forty ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...a squash seed which grew so fast that one of the squashes ran away with the boy on top of it, traveling as fast as an express train. How the little girls laughed at that funny way of traveling. "I'd be willing to run a race with that squash to-day," said Uncle Ned. "Here we are at. Nugentville in just forty minutes from the starting-point." "Good old 'Nokomis '!" said Mr. Sayre; and the little girls patted the sailboat as if she had been a live thing that could appreciate the loving. Now Uncle Ned steered "Nokomis" up to the dock where Uncle James and Mr. Burchard jumped out and made her fast. Then the men helped the ladies and the youngest girls out of the boat, but Frances and Ruth and Margaret Fairfield were already climbing the ladder from the float to the pier. It was low tide now, and this meant that the float on which they landed was much lower than the pier, so every one would have to climb the ladder. Dorothy was afraid to try it, but the ladder rounds were close together, so Father said: --"You can do it, Dorothy. I will stay close behind you and keep hold of you, but you don't want me to carry you up. You want to learn to be nimble and fearless like Frances." By the time Dorothy and all the grown people had climbed the ladder most of the children were a long way ahead on the road to Nugentville. Uncle James laughed softly. "Making a bee-line for ice-cream," he said. Sure enough, when the rest of the people reached the village they found the girls already seated at the little tables in the ice-cream shop. Uncle James pretended to be very much surprised. "Why, you kiddies don't expect any ice-cream to-day, do you?" said he. "Oh, no! Oh, no!" sang out the girls...
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Hill, Mabel B. Poor. No dust jacket. Ex-library. Covers with wear and edge fraying/ Green tape along spine-Ex library with the usual additions and markings-Inner hinges tape repaired-Inner pages with a few creases, smudges or faint water marks. 176 p. Includes illustrations. Hardcover/ No dust jacket...5 1/2" x 8"
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