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Brother and Sister

Brother and Sister

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BROTHER AND SISTER


BY

JOSEPHINE LAWRENCE



AUTHOR OF

"BROTHER AND SISTER'S SCHOOLDAYS"
"BROTHER AND SISTER'S HOLIDAYS"

BROTHER AND SISTER SERIES

BY JOSEPHINE LAWRENCE

1. BROTHER AND SISTER
2. BROTHER AND SISTER'S SCHOOLDAYS
3. BROTHER AND SISTER'S HOLIDAYS




BROTHER AND SISTER


CONTENTS

I.   THE MORRISONS
II.   GRANDMA HASTINGS
III.   SISTER IN MISCHIEF
IV.   PARTY PREPARATIONS
V.   DICK'S BUTTONS
VI.   RALPH'S PRESENT
VII.   MORE PRESENTS
VIII.   THE PARTY
IX.   OUT IN THE BARN
X.   THE HAUNTED HOUSE
XI.   JIMMIE'S SURPRISE
XII.   A LITTLE SHOPPING
XIII.   A BIG DISAPPOINTMENT
XIV.   TWO IN TROUBLE
XV.   TROUBLE AGAIN
XVI.   MISS PUTNAM COMPLAINS
XVII.   MAKING UP WITH JIMMIE
XVIII.   MICKEY GAFFNEY
XIX.   A VERY SICK DOLL
XX.   PLANS FOR MICKEY
XXI.   BROTHER AND SISTER PAY A CALL
XXII.   MICKEY OWNS UP




BROTHER AND SISTER




CHAPTER I

THE MORRISONS

"Brother," said Mother Morrison, "you haven't touched your glass of milk. Hurry now, and drink it before we leave the table."

Brother's big brown eyes turned from his knife, which he had been playing was a bridge from the salt cellar to the egg cup, toward the tumbler of milk standing beside his plate.

"I don't have to drink milk this morning, Mother," he assured her confidently. "Honestly I don't. It's raining so hard that we can't go outdoors and grow, anyway."

Louise, his older sister, said sharply. "Don't be silly!" but Ralph, who was in a hurry to catch his train, stopped long enough to give a word of advice.

"Look here, Brother," he urged seriously, "better not skip a morning. Your birthday is next week, isn't it? Well, if you're not tall enough by Wednesday morning, you can't have the present I bought for you last night. Too short, no present—you think it over."

He stooped to kiss his mother, tweaked Sister's perky bow of hair-ribbon, and with a hasty "Good-bye" for the others at the table, hurried out into the hall. They heard the front door slam after him.

Spurred by Ralph's mysterious hint, Brother drank his milk, and then the Morrison family scattered for their usual busy day.

Brother and Sister were left to clear the breakfast table. They always did this, carrying out the dishes and silver to Molly in the kitchen. Then they crumbled the cloth neatly. Molly declared she could not do without them.

"What do you suppose Ralph is going to give you?" speculated Sister, carefully folding up the napkin Louise had dropped, and slipping it into the white pique ring embroidered with an "L." "Maybe it's a train?"

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