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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Brown Mouse, by Herbert Quick This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: The Brown Mouse Author: Herbert Quick Release Date: October 21, 2008 [EBook #26987] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE BROWN MOUSE *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE BROWN MOUSE By HERBERT QUICK Author of Aladdin & Company, The Broken Lance On Board the Good Ship Earth, Etc. INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright 1915 The Bobbs-Merrill Company Printed in the United States of America PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOK MANUFACTURERS BROOKLYN, N. Y. CONTENTS CHAPTER I A Maiden's "Humph" 1 II Reversed Unanimity 24 III What Is a Brown Mouse 38 IV The First Day of School 48 V The Promotion of Jennie 55 VI Jim Talks the Weather Cold 65 VII The New Wine 75 VIII And the Old Bottles 89 IX Jennie Arranges a Christmas Party 99 X How Jim Was Lined Up 111 XI The Mouse Escapes 122 XII Facing Trial 132 XIII Fame or Notoriety 147 XIV The Colonel Takes the Field 164 XV A Minor Casts Half a Vote 188 XVI The Glorious Fourth 203 XVII A Trouble Shooter 218 XVIII Jim Goes to Ames 235 XIX Jim's World Widens 242 XX Think of It 248 XXI A School District Held Up 258 XXII An Embassy From Dixie 277 XXIII And So They Lived---- 295 THE BROWN MOUSE CHAPTER I A MAIDEN'S "HUMPH" A Farm-hand nodded in answer to a question asked him by Napoleon on the morning of Waterloo. The nod was false, or the emperor misunderstood--and Waterloo was lost. On the nod of a farm-hand rested the fate of Europe. This story may not be so important as the battle
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