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Title: Christmas Holidays at Merryvale
The Merryvale Boys

Author: Alice Hale Burnett

Illustrator: Charles F. Lester

Release Date: November 20, 2007 [EBook #23569]

Language: English

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THE MERRYVALE BOYS

By ALICE HALE BURNETT

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Six real stories for small boys, each complete in itself, telling about
the many interesting doings of "Toad" and "Chuck" Brown, and their
friends, "Fat," "Reddy" and others.

The books are written so the boy may read and understand them and the
action faithfully portrays boy life in a small town.

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=CIRCUS DAY AT MERRYVALE=

"Toad" and "Reddy," by good fortune, each earn two tickets to the
circus, although they find watering elephants a harder task than it at
first seemed. A jolly party of boys visit the circus.

=FATHER BROWN'S INDIAN TALE=

Dad's story is followed by an unexpected visitor who at first startles
then interests all of the little party gathered around the fireside.

=THE PICNIC AT MERRYVALE=

Did you ever go to a picnic in a large farm wagon, filled with boys and
girls? Then did you catch a fine lot of trout and broil them before a
camp-fire? "Toad" and "Reddy" did these very things and had a day long
to be remembered.

=CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS IN MERRYVALE=

Daddy Williams' Toy Shop is the center of interest to "Toad" and his
friends long before Christmas arrives. They plan a surprise that brings
joy to a poor family. The boys erect snow forts and the two sides have a
battle royal.

=MERRYVALE BOYS ON THE FARM=

"Toad's" grandmother invites him and "Reddy" to spend a month in the
country. Their experiences at Sunnyside farm, with its horses, cows,
pigs and chickens, are most entertainingly told, and they have the time
of their lives boating, swimming and fishing in the creek.

=HALLOWE'EN AT MERRYVALE=

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