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[Illustration: "THEY NEVER SAW THE OLD FELLOW WITHOUT
SHOUTING." ( See page 21 )]
Cosy Corner Series
JERRY'S
REWARD By
Evelyn Snead Barnett Illustrated by
Etheldred B. Barry
Boston
L. C. Page & Company
1903
Copyright, 1900, 1901
By E. S. BARNETT Copyright, 1902
By L. C. PAGE & COMPANY
(INCORPORATED) All rights reserved
Published, May, 1902
Colonial Press
Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.
Boston, Mass., U. S. A.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I. THE INTERRUPTED GAME 11 II. THE SHADOW 16 III. PADDY AND PEGGY 22 IV. HARD TIMES 28 V. PEGGY OVERHEARS A STARTLING CONVERSATION 35 VI. THE POLICE ARE SUMMONED 41 VII. WHERE WAS PEGGY? 49 VIII. LUCK IN DISGUISE 58 IX. PADDY MAKES THE EFFORT OF HIS LIFE 66
ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE "THEY NEVER SAW THE OLD FELLOW WITHOUT
SHOUTING" ( See page 21 ) Frontispiece "THEY STOOD IN A LONG ROW" 13 "HE TURNED AROUND SUDDENLY" 19 "'THE TOP OF THE MORNIN' TO YE'" 24 "ALL THE CHILDREN EXCEPT THE BABIES
STARTED FOR SCHOOL" 29 "ALTHOUGH SHE WAS WARMLY CLAD, THE RUSH
OF COLD AIR MADE HER SHIVER" 39 "'WHAT ON EARTH ARE YOU DOING HERE ALONE?'" 44 "A STURDY LEG EMERGING FROM HIS FRONT WINDOW" 53 "AROUND HIS TANNED AND WRINKLED NECK
WENT HER WHITE ARMS" 64 "AFTER THEM FOLLOWED THE NURSES, CARRYING
THE BABIES" 73
JERRY'S REWARD
CHAPTER I. THE INTERRUPTED GAME Jefferson Square was a short street in Gaminsville, occupying just one
block. It took only two things on one side of it to fill up the space
from corner to corner. One was the Convent of the Good Shepherd, built
on a large lot surrounded by a high brick wall; the other, a common
where all the people around dumped cinders, rags, tin cans in fact,
anything on earth they wished to throw away. On the other side were
dwelling houses, and these were filled with children lots of them.
There surely were never so many children on one square before! There were the Earlys, the Rickersons, the Bakers, the Adamses, the
Mortons, and the Longs twenty one in all. There were really twenty eight; but the parents of seven children,
though they were not what you might call poor, were not well born like
the others, so nobody counted them any more than they included them in
the games that the twenty one played. This was sad for the seven little
outcasts, but the others never thought about that. The twenty one had splendid times together. It was play, play, play for
ever dolls, pin fairs, circuses, and games. Every afternoon they
gathered in the Mortons' front gate, because it was wider and had three
stone steps leading down from it, where all the children could sit. One evening, the latter part of August, the sun had dipped down behind
the world, leaving red splashes over a green sky. On seeing it the
children played fast and furiously, for they knew only too well that
when the sky looked like that they might at any moment be called
indoors, made to eat their suppers and go to bed. [Illustration] The oldest child of the lot was Henry Clay Morton. He was one of those
boys who try to have their way in everything, and generally succeed; so,
on this particular evening when he got tired playing "Grammammy Gray"
and proposed "Lost My Handkerchief," the others consented without any
fuss. The next thing to decide was who should be "ole man." They stood
in a long row, and Henry Clay, pointing, began at the top and gave each
child a word like this: "Eeny, meany, miny, mo;
Cracky, feeny, finy fo;
Ommer neutcha, popper teucha;
Rick, bick, ban, do... Continue reading book >>
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