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MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE
THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO
BY HELEN HILL AND VIOLET MAXWELL AUTHORS OF “CHARLIE AND HIS KITTEN TOPSY”
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published September, 1923.
The authors have made every effort to write these little stories in language that will be intelligible to very little children.
They have observed that it is much easier to hold a small child’s attention when _telling stories_, rather than when reading them aloud. So they have tried to put these stories in informal English, using frequent repetitions, with here and there an _interesting_ long word, and italicizing words on which emphasis is to be laid, their object being to write the stories as they would be told.
IV CHARLIE RIDES ON THE ENGINE OF A REAL TRAIN 41
VI CHARLIE DELIVERS MAIL FOR THE STAGE DRIVER 67
VII CHARLIE MAKES A POOL AND SAILS HIS BOAT 87
VIII CHARLIE BUILDS A REAL HOUSE OUT OF BRICK 104
IX BINGO LEARNS TO COME WHEN HE IS CALLED 120
The puppy drank all the milk _Opposite_ 10
Bingo had to travel in the baggage car _Facing_ 43
Charlie and the stage driver talk together “ 81
Charlie watched the builders _Opposite_ 107
One of the strange boys held Bingo _Facing_ 129
Charlie made three villages _Opposite_ 143
Charlie was a little boy who lived with his Mother and his Daddy and his Auntie in a house in the city. The house had a big yard all around it, where Charlie liked to play.
A cat called Jane and her kitten Topsy also lived in the house. Topsy and Charlie were great friends and they played together all day long. Jane sometimes played with them too, but Jane was a cat who loved little babies, both baby cats and baby humans, and she was sad because Charlie was growing to be a big little boy, and Topsy was a big little kitten--so big that he could wash himself and it would have been _ab-surd_ for Jane to go on washing him when he was such a big little kitten!
One morning Charlie woke up suddenly because his kitten Topsy had jumped on his bed and was tickling him under the chin!
Charlie woke up, and somehow he felt different--he felt most _awfully old_--and then he remembered why!