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The Rich Little Poor Boy By: Eleanor Gates (1875-1951) |
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ELEANOR GATES [Illustration: WHAT HE SAW THERE HELD HIM SPELLBOUND IN HIS CHAIR]
THE RICH
LITTLE POOR BOY BY ELEANOR GATES AUTHOR OF "THE POOR LITTLE RICH GIRL,"
"THE PLOW WOMAN," "THE BIOGRAPHY OF A
PRAIRIE GIRL," "ALEC LLOYD, COW PUNCHER,"
"PIGGIE," ETC. [Illustration] D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK :: MCMXXII :: LONDON COPYRIGHT, 1922, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO F. F. M.
CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE WICKED GIANT 1 II. PRIDE AND PENALTY 10 III. A FEAST AND AN EXCURSION 17 IV. THE FOUR MILLIONAIRES 24 V. NEW FRIENDS 36 VI. THE DEAREST WISH 52 VII. A SERIOUS STEP 60 VIII. MORE TREASURES 68 IX. ONE EYE 79 X. THE SURPRISE 93 XI. THE DISCOVERY 108 XII. A PRODIGAL PUFFED UP 117 XIII. CHANGES 122 XIV. THE HEAVEN THAT NEARLY HAPPENED 138 XV. SCOUTS 144 XVI. HOPE DEFERRED 153 XVII. MR. PERKINS 160 XVIII. THE ROOF 172 XIX. A DIFFERENT CIS 183 XX. THE HANDBOOK 190 XXI. THE MEETING 201 XXII. CIS TELLS A SECRET 212 XXIII. ROSES THAT TATTLED 219 XXIV. FATHER PAT 233 XXV. AN ALLY CROSSES A SWORD 241 XXVI. THE END OF A LONG DAY 247 XXVII. ANOTHER GIFT 255 XXVIII. ANOTHER STORY 275 XXIX. REVOLT 290 XXX. DISASTER 300 XXXI. THE VISION 318 XXXII. HELP 330 XXXIII. ONE EYE FIGHTS 345 XXXIV. SIR ALGERNON 357 XXXV. GOOD BYS 363 XXXVI. LEFT BEHIND 373 XXXVII. UPS AND DOWNS 379 XXXVIII. ANOTHER GOOD BY 391 XXXIX. THE LETTER 400 XL. "THE TRUE WAY" 407
THE RICH LITTLE POOR BOY ELEANOR GATES
CHAPTER I THE WICKED GIANT
HE was ten. But his clothes were forty. And it was this difference in
the matter of age, and, consequently, in the matter of size, that
explained why, at first sight, he did not show how thin bodied he was,
but seemed, instead, to be rather a stout little boy. For his faded, old
shirt, with its wide sleeves lopped off just above his elbows, and his
patched trousers, shortened by the scissors to knee length, were both
many times too large for him, so that they lay upon him, front, back and
sides, in great, overlapping pleats that were, in turn, bunched into
heavy tucks; and his kitchen apron, worn with the waistband about his
neck, the strings being tied at the back, also lent him if viewed from
the front an appearance both of width and weight. But he was not stout. His frame was not even fairly well covered. From
the apron hem in front, the two legs that led down to the floor were
scarcely larger than lead piping. From the raveling ends of his short
sleeves were thrust out arms that matched the legs bony, skinny arms,
pallid as to color, and with hardly any more shape to them than there
was to the poker of the cookstove. But while the lead pipe legs ended in
the sort of hard, splinter defying boy's feet that could be met with on
any stretch of pavement outside the tenement, the bony arms did not end
in boyish hands... Continue reading book >>
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