قراءة كتاب Aunt Jimmy's Will
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AUNT JIMMY’S WILL
BY
MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT
AUTHOR OF “BIRDCRAFT,” “WABENO THE MAGICIAN,”
ETC., ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY
FLORENCE SCOVELL SHINN
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., Ltd.
1903
All rights reserved
Copyright, 1903,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up, electrotyped, and published October, 1903.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
To my God-child
MARY ELIZABETH MILLER
“Aim at the highest, and never mind the money.”
—L. M. Alcott.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| I. | Red Pineys | 1 |
| II. | Her Uncle John | 23 |
| III. | Aunt Jimmy | 38 |
| IV. | A Caged Bird | 58 |
| V. | Mrs. Lane plays Detective | 77 |
| VI. | Bird’s Cousins | 103 |
| VII. | Summer in New York | 131 |
| VIII. | The Flower Missionary | 146 |
| IX. | ’Ram Slocum’s Taunt | 162 |
| X. | Lammy consults Old Lucky | 181 |
| XI. | The Pewter Tea-pot | 202 |
| XII. | The Tug of War | 217 |
| XIII. | Telltale Trousers | 225 |
| XIV. | The Fire-escape | 242 |
| XV. | The Bird is freed | 258 |
ILLUSTRATIONS
| “‘Hem!’ The lawyer cleared his throat” (p. 52) | Frontispiece |
| PAGE | |
|---|---|
| “Bird crouched in a black heap” | 8 |
| Bird, Lammy, and Twinkle | 13 |
| “‘Buy something to-day? Nice goots ver’ cheap’” | 99 |
| Bird and Billy on the fire-escape | 137 |
| “‘They ain’t fer me, fer sure?’” | 158 |
| “‘It means, Lammy Lane, that the Lord don’t forget the orphan’” | 230 |
| “Bird was found at last” | 267 |
Aunt Jimmy’s Will
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RED PINEYS
Bird O’More crouched in a little black heap in
