MrRutherford's children . s Children (thereare several volumes) by way of trial; andif that is liked well enough, The ChristmassStocking; and in time, maybe, the wholebookshelf. I hope they will be liked, becauseelse the Bookshelf will never be finished;and unfinished things are disagreeable. I am the friend of all Ellen Montgomerys friends, ELIZABETH WETHERELL. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PA0, WHERE THEY LIVED 11 CHAPTER II. THE BIRDS, THE CRAVAT, AND THE MINISTER 20 CHAPTER III. CHERRY AND DASH, AND WHERE THEY WENT 39 CHAPTER IV. THE WET STRAWBERRIES 64 CHAPTER V. HEADACHE AND LOCUST FLOWERS 71 CHA


MrRutherford's children . s Children (thereare several volumes) by way of trial; andif that is liked well enough, The ChristmassStocking; and in time, maybe, the wholebookshelf. I hope they will be liked, becauseelse the Bookshelf will never be finished;and unfinished things are disagreeable. I am the friend of all Ellen Montgomerys friends, ELIZABETH WETHERELL. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. PA0, WHERE THEY LIVED 11 CHAPTER II. THE BIRDS, THE CRAVAT, AND THE MINISTER 20 CHAPTER III. CHERRY AND DASH, AND WHERE THEY WENT 39 CHAPTER IV. THE WET STRAWBERRIES 64 CHAPTER V. HEADACHE AND LOCUST FLOWERS 71 CHAPTER VI. WHAT SHALL I GIVE ? 80 CHAPTER VII. SYBILS BIRTHDAY 95 CHAPTER VIII. CHICKENS AND EGGS 105 10 CONTEXTS. CHAPTER IX. i-aob THE SILK-WORMS AND THE BUTTERFLY DOOR 126 CHAPTER X. CAT8 AND CRACKERS , 143 CHAPTER XI. CLEAVELAND 159 CHAPTER XII. A LETTER AND AN ARRIVAL 178 CHAPTER XIII. THE CURIOSITY BOX 193 CHAPTER XIV. CHRYSSA AND HER COUSIN 211 CHAPTER XV. GOING A PLEASURING 228 CHAPTER XVI. THE END OF THE SUMMER 243. WHERE T B E Y LIVE D. ILD-ROSE lane ran clownfrom Dusty turnpike to the sea-shore, but asyou might suppose, it was a long distancebetween the two. No one who saw the clouds 12 WHERE THEY LIVED. of dust 0:1 the turnpike, or the sparkling of theblue water of the sea, would think there couldbe a straight road from the one to the say truth the lane was not straight. For awhile after it left the turnpike its course waspretty direct, but then you might have thoughtthat the lane was sometimes sociable and some-times solitary in its taste ; for it would run offon purpose to meet a queerlooking little brownhouse with ever so many children and pigs andchickens, and a little black dog that barked ateverything but the lane ; and then as if the laneitself were quite disgusted, it would take a shortturn into the cool quiet woods. It was a won-der it did not stay there always. A great many things lived by the side of thislane. And first there were the wild roses, w


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