Aunt Jimmy's Will

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Mabel Osgood Wright. Aunt Jimmy's Will

Aunt Jimmy's Will

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ILLUSTRATIONS

I. RED PINEYS

II. HER UNCLE JOHN

III. AUNT JIMMY

IV. A CAGED BIRD

V. MRS. LANE PLAYS DETECTIVE

VI. BIRD’S COUSINS

VII. SUMMER IN NEW YORK

VIII. THE FLOWER MISSIONARY

IX ’RAM SLOCUM’S TAUNT

X. LAMMY CONSULTS OLD LUCKY

XI. THE PEWTER TEA-POT

XII. THE TUG OF WAR

XIII. TELLTALE TROUSERS

XIV. THE FIRE-ESCAPE

XV. THE BIRD IS FREED

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Mabel Osgood Wright

Published by Good Press, 2021

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Bird gave a gasp and instinctively clutched Lammy’s hand. Could this be some one from her uncle? Of course it was not he himself, for her father had been youngish, tall and slight, with fair hair, small feet and hands, while this man was all of fifty, and had a rough and common look in spite of his clothes that did not match his heavy boots and clumsy grimy hands.

For a moment Bird forgot the story of her father’s boyhood that he had so often told her, forgot that fifteen years and a different mother separated him from his half-brothers, and when Mr. Lane called her, as she tried to slip in at the side door after Lammy, saying, “Come here, Bird, this is your Uncle John O’More come from New York,” she could only keep from falling by an effort, and stood still, nervously twisting her hands in the skirt of her black frock without being able to speak a word, while Twinkle seated himself at her feet looking anxiously, first at the stranger, then at Mr. Lane, with his head cocked on one side.

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