St. Nicholas, Conducted by M.M. Dodge Volume 6 (Paperback)

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. 1879 Excerpt: ...has tumbled over the bounds' stone, and cut his breeches, and broken his shin, and stung himself all over with nettles; and we want you to help us persuade uncle to have a Gang Monday." Carrie stopped her work, and turned round a face as fresh and bright as her own roses. "With all my heart, Peter," she began; but then her face fell and she shook her little gauntleted fist at her two brothers. "You wretched boys what have you been doing with Vic? setting her after rabbits again, I do believe." The small terrier, her special delight, sidled round toward her young mistress, with tail drooping, casting appealing looks at her, and reproachful ones at the boys, as much as to say, ' you know now it was all your fault." "Well, Carrie, you see she would come. We did n't know she was following till we were close to the copse, and then we found a rabbit quite by chance; and you know, Carrie, nobody can stop her when once she sees a rabbit," Plump put in. "Now, it really is too bad of you," she said, bending down and putting back the draggled masses of long hair which hung over Vic's eyes. "It took me two days to get her tidy again after your last hunt, and that only a week ago. It's too bad. You have ruined her so that I can't take her a walk in the village for fear of her running off into the coverts; and the keepers will shoot her or trap her. Ah, you naughty Vic you 're nearly as bad as the boys. You '11 be found smothered, I know, in a burrow, or the old Fox will catch you and eat you." Carrie was really annoyed, but sisters are the most forgiving and long-suffering of our race, and so the boys soon made their peace with her, and got a tub of hot water, and helped to wash die dirt out of Vic's eyes, an...