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Title: Captain Horace

Author: Sophie May

Release Date: May 16, 2008 [EBook #25484]

Language: English

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[Illustration: CAPTAIN HORACE.]

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LITTLE PRUDY'S STORIES.

BY SOPHIE MAY

ILLUSTRATED

LITTLE PRUDY'S CAPTAIN HORACE.

LEE & SHEPARD BOSTON

LITTLE PRUDY SERIES.

CAPTAIN HORACE.

BY

SOPHIE MAY.

BOSTON 1893
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
10 MILK STREET NEXT "THE OLD SOUTH MEETING HOUSE"

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1864, by
LEE & SHEPARD,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court
of the District of Massachusetts.

COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY REBECCA S. CLARKE.

LITTLE PRUDY'S CAPTAIN HORACE.

TO

MY LITTLE NEPHEW

WILLY WHEELER.

FROM HIS AFFECTIONATE

AUNT.

PREFACE.

You wide-awake little boys, who make whistles of willow, and go fishing
and training,--Horace is very much like you, I suppose. He is by no
means perfect, but he is brave and kind, and scorns a lie. I hope you
and he will shake hands and be friends.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. MAKING CANDY, 5

II. CAMPING OUT, 15

III. TAKING A JOURNEY, 33

IV. AT GRANDPA PARLIN'S, 49

V. CAPTAIN OF A COMPANY, 68

VI. SUSY AND PRUDY, 87

VII. IN THE WOODS, 99

VIII. CAPTAIN CLIFFORD, 117

IX. THE BLUE BOOK, 128

X. TRYING TO GET RICH, 141

XI. THE LITTLE INDIAN, 149

XII. A PLEASANT SURPRISE, 167

CAPTAIN HORACE.

CHAPTER I.

MAKING CANDY.

Grace and Horace Clifford lived in Indiana, and so were called
"Hoosiers."

Their home, with its charming grounds, was a little way out of town, and
from the front windows of the house