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Title: Little Grandfather

Author: Sophie May

Release Date: May 15, 2008 [EBook #25481]

Language: English

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[Illustration: LITTLE GRANDFATHER.]

[Illustration: LITTLE GRANDFATHER.

ILLUSTRATED

LEE & SHEPARD, BOSTON]

LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES.

LITTLE GRANDFATHER.

BY

SOPHIE MAY,

AUTHOR OF "LITTLE PRUDY STORIES," "DOTTY DIMPLE STORIES," "THE DOCTOR'S
DAUGHTER." ETC.

_ILLUSTRATED._

BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.

NEW YORK:
LEE, SHEPARD AND DILLINGHAM.
1874.

Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1873,

BY LEE AND SHEPARD,

In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Electrotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry,
No. 19 Spring Lane.

DEDICATION.

TO

_LITTLE MARY TOBEY._

_LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES._

TO BE COMPLETED IN SIX VOLS.

1. LITTLE FOLKS ASTRAY.

2. PRUDY KEEPING HOUSE.

3. AUNT MADGE'S STORY.

4. LITTLE GRANDMOTHER.

5. LITTLE GRANDFATHER.

6. (In preparation.)

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE.

I. THE PARLINS. 9

II. WALKING IN SLEEP. 21

III. THE TRUNDLE-BED. 41

IV. THE OX-MONEY. 53

V. THE BOY THAT WORE HOME THE MEDAL. 63

VI. THE BOY THAT MEANT TO MIND HIS MOTHER. 80

VII. THE BOY THAT CHEATED. 97

VIII. THE "NEVER-GIVE-UPS." 113

IX. THE MUSTER. 134

X. GOING TO SEA. 153

XI. TO THE FORKS. 173

XII. "I HA'E NAEBODY NOW." 197

XIII