Caleb in the Country

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Abbott Jacob. Caleb in the Country

PREFATORY NOTICE

CHAPTER I. CALEB'S DISCOVERY

CHAPTER II. TROUBLE

CHAPTER III. BUILDING THE MOLE

CHAPTER IV. A DISCUSSION

CHAPTER V. THE STORY OF BLIND SAMUEL

CHAPTER VI. ENGINEERING

CHAPTER VII. THE SOFA

CHAPTER VIII. THE CART RIDE

CHAPTER IX. THE FIRE

CHAPTER X. THE CAPTIVE

CHAPTER XI. MARY ANNA

CHAPTER XII. THE WALK

CHAPTER XIII. THE JUNK

END OF CALEB IN THE COUNTRY. POETRY. PASSING AWAY

WEEP NOT FOR ME

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Caleb was a bright-looking, blue-eyed boy, with auburn hair and happy countenance. And yet he was rather pale and slender. He had been sick. His father and mother lived in Boston, but now he was spending the summer at Sandy River country, with his grandmother. His father thought that if he could run about a few months in the open air, and play among the rocks and under the trees, he would grow more strong and healthy, and that his cheeks would not look so pale.

His grandmother made him a blue jacket with bright buttons. She liked metal buttons, because they would wear longer than covered ones, but he liked them because they were more beautiful. “Besides,” said he, “I can see my face in them, grandmother.”

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“What is a pharisee and a publican?” asked Caleb.

“You will hear presently. 'And the pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself: God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers.”

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