This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ..."Got away?" echoed his father. "Do you mean to say you stood and let a boy pummel you like that and then 'got away'?" Martin grovelled lower in the driveway and wailed unrestrainedly. ' Perhaps he was smaller, ' Tom suggested hopefully, "and you didn't feel like fighting him, eh?" "Oh no, sir," cried Bell eagerly, "he ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 Excerpt: ..."Got away?" echoed his father. "Do you mean to say you stood and let a boy pummel you like that and then 'got away'?" Martin grovelled lower in the driveway and wailed unrestrainedly. ' Perhaps he was smaller, ' Tom suggested hopefully, "and you didn't feel like fighting him, eh?" "Oh no, sir," cried Bell eagerly, "he was a little bigger than Martin, Mr. Wilbour--it was that horrid boy near the pond. He taunts him every day we drive by--he's a bad one. But Martin 'll never fight him," she added proudly; "he'd be ashamed, wouldn't you, Martin?" "I wouldn't be ashamed--I would not!" screamed Martin hysterically, kicking out at her proffered hand. ' I can't fight him, but I wouldn't be ashamed, I tell you!" Tom looked puzzled. "Suppose you go on up to the house, Bell," he suggested, "and I'll attend to Martin. Now, Binks, sit up and talk to me...." An hour later Susy looked up from the book she was trying to persuade herself that she was reading, and gasped at the pair before her. Martin's eyes were doubly swollen, for his crying had evidently been prolonged, and Tom was flushed and moved to a degree she could not remember to have seen before. "Susy," he said sternly, "I want you to understand that whatever Martin may do in the matter that has been troubling him, he does with my consent." Martin gulped, but in his shy glance at her his mother could not fail to see the old look she had missed for so many days, and wondered at it deeply. "Mrs. Singleton," Tom continued stiffly, "has most unwarrantably exacted a promise from Martin never to fight another boy, and as this has become known, and as Martin felt that he could not break his w...
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Seller's Description:
Rose O'neill. Very Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. First printing. Moderate wear to the extremities. The spine is soiled and faded. A gift inscription from actor and director Harold A. Crawford is written on the front free endpaper. In a sound binding with hinges intact.
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Very Good. First edition. Pictorial red cloth stamped in black. Illustrated by Rose O'Neill. Owner's name inked on front fly, extremities moderately worn, a very good copy.
