Miss Minerva and William Green Hill . Illustrated byANGUS MACDONALL The Reilly & Lee Co. CHICAGO Miss Minerva and William Green Hill COPYRIGHT, MCMIX BYTHE REILLY ^ BRITTON RIGHTS RESERVED, MADEIN U, S. A. . FIFTY-FOURTH EDITION CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I A Scandalized Virgin 11 II The Rabbits Left Hind 22 III The Willing Worker 32 IV Sweetheart and Partner 42 V Turning on the Hose 51 VI Successful Strategy 62 VII Rabbits and Other Eggs 72 VIII Tellers of Tales 84 IX Changing the Ethiopian 94 X Lo! the Poor Indian 103 XI Now Riddle Me This 118 XII In the House of the Lord 128 XIII
Miss Minerva and William Green Hill . Illustrated byANGUS MACDONALL The Reilly & Lee Co. CHICAGO Miss Minerva and William Green Hill COPYRIGHT, MCMIX BYTHE REILLY ^ BRITTON RIGHTS RESERVED, MADEIN U, S. A. . FIFTY-FOURTH EDITION CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I A Scandalized Virgin 11 II The Rabbits Left Hind 22 III The Willing Worker 32 IV Sweetheart and Partner 42 V Turning on the Hose 51 VI Successful Strategy 62 VII Rabbits and Other Eggs 72 VIII Tellers of Tales 84 IX Changing the Ethiopian 94 X Lo! the Poor Indian 103 XI Now Riddle Me This 118 XII In the House of the Lord 128 XIII Job and Pollie Bumpus 136 XIV Mr. Algernon Jones 144 XV Billy, the Credulous 163 XVI The Humble Petition 169 XVII A Green-eyed Billy 179 XVIII Closer than a Brother 185 XIX Twins and a Sissy 195 XX Rising in the World 205 XXI Pretending Reality 215 XXII A Transaction in Mumps 222 XXIII The Infant Mind Shoots 232 XXIV A Flaw in the Title 240 XXV Education and Its Perils 250 XXVI Unconditional Surrender 258. MISS MINERVA andWILLIAM GREEN HILL CHAPTER IA SCANDALIZED VIRGIN HE bus drove up to the gateand stopped under the electricstreet-light. Perched on the boxby the big, black negro driversat a little boy whose slender figure wasswathed in a huge rain coat. Miss Minerva was on the porch waitingto receive him. Mercy on me, child, she said, what onearth made you ride up there? Why didntyou get inside T I jest wanted to ride by Sam Lamb, re-plied the child as he was lifted down. An I see a nice fat little man name Major He jes wouldnt ride inside, Miss Mi-nerva, interrupted the driver, quickly, to pass over the blush that rose to the spin- II 12 Miss Minerva and sters thin cheek at mention of the no use fer ter try ter make him ridenowhars but jes up by me. He jes fusedan fused an sputed an sputed; he jestuck ter me fom de minute he got offm detrain an sot eyes on me; he am one easychile ter git quainted wid; so, I jes histedhim up by me. Here am his verlise, maam. Good
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