Squib and His Friends

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Everett-Green Evelyn. Squib and His Friends

CHAPTER I “THE ODD ONE.”

CHAPTER II. GOING AWAY

CHAPTER III. THE CHALET IN THE HILLS

CHAPTER IV. THE LITTLE GOAT-HERD

CHAPTER V. COMRADES

CHAPTER VI. HERR ADLER

CHAPTER VII. HAPPY HOURS

CHAPTER VIII. A WONDERFUL WALK

CHAPTER IX. A STORY AND A FAREWELL

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CHAPTER X. A MOUNTAIN STORM

CHAPTER XI. PLANS AND PROJECTS

CHAPTER XII. FAREWELLS

CHAPTER XIII. GOING HOME

CHAPTER XIV. CONCLUSION

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And now, having introduced my little hero to you, I will lose no more time, but commence the story I have to tell of one particular year of his life.

Squib was by this time “rising nine,” as he generally liked to call it. His next and ninth birthday would be in August, and this was May, and at Michaelmas he was to go to school, to his own mingled pride and regret. He enjoyed the thought of being a schoolboy, of gaining the independence and importance that always seemed to attach to his elder brothers from the fact that they only spent the holiday months at home, and were so much away at school; but he did not like to think of having to leave Czar and Charger and all his numerous and peculiar pets. He was not sure that any other person would understand how to manage them or to make them happy, and it weighed on him sometimes to think that they would miss him when he was gone. Still the thing would have to be done whether he liked it or not, and Squib was resolving to take matters philosophically, and look at things on the bright side as far as possible.

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“That’s all right. I’ve heard as much myself. Well, Mr. Lorimer is a great Alpine Club man, and no end of a mountaineer, and knows all the passes and the peaks and the guides, and the ways of things; and we shall go off from time to time with him and do some climbing, and then your mother and Mrs. Lorimer will be left at the chalet with you for their protector, and we thought that a dog like Czar would be a good addition to the party; so it’s settled that he’s to go. That’s just about how it is, you see.”

“I see,” answered Squib, looking very thoughtful and contemplative, and after a long pause he asked tentatively, “I suppose we couldn’t take Charger with us too?”

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