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Title: Pixy's Holiday Journey

Author: George Lang

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Language: English

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PIXY'S HOLIDAY JOURNEY

Translated from the German of GEORGE LANG

by MARY E. IRELAND

1906

TO THE TWO DEAR BOYS, HUGH D. SHEPARD AND GEORGE H. IRELAND,
BOTH OF WHOM TOOK KEEN PLEASURE IN LISTENING TO THE READING OF THE
MANUSCRIPT OF THE HOLIDAY JOURNEY OF THREE BOYS AND PIXY, THE STORY, NOW
IN BOOK FORM, IS LOVINGLY DEDICATED BY

THE TRANSLATOR.

Washington, D.C.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE GRECIANS AND THE TROJANS

II. THEY MEET A KIND FRIEND

III. AT THE SWAN INN

IV. A KIND WELCOME

V. FRITZ IN TROUBLE

VI. A WHOLE DAY OF SIGHT-SEEING

VII. THE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

VIII. PIXY IN TROUBLE

IX. THEY VISIT THE CLOTHING MOUSE

X. PIXY'S EARNINGS

XI. IN THE DESERTED CABIN

XII. A WELL-SPRING OF PLEASURE

PIXY'S HOLIDAY JOURNEY

CHAPTER I

THE GRECIANS AND THE TROJANS

There were three boys in the same class in the polytechnic school in the
mountainous Odenwald country, in Hesse Darmstadt, who were such great
friends and inseparable companions that the other pupils named them "the
three-leaved clover." They were near of an age--about eleven--and near
of a size; and their names were Fritz, Paul and Franz.

Fritz was an active, energetic boy, had coal black hair and bright,
black eyes which looked out upon the world with the alert glance of
a squirrel in a cage.

Paul had brown hair, brown eyes and brown complexion, was of reflective
manner, and willing to follow where Fritz led.

Franz was a robust boy with blonde hair, blue eyes, fair complexion, and
cheeks like cherries which had ripened in the sun.

They had been firm friends ever since the day that Fritz had had a
combat