The Boy from Green Ginger Land

THE BOY FROM GREEN GINGER LAND
QUITE A LITTLE CROWD GATHERED TO WATCH MICKY.
THE BOY FROM GREEN GINGER LAND
BY E. VAUGHAN-SMITH AUTHOR OF ‘CRAGS OF DUTY,’ ETC.
Illustrated
LONDON WELLS GARDNER, DARTON & CO., LTD. PATERNOSTER BUILDINGS, E.C.
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN WELLS GARDNER, DARTON AND CO., LTD.

‘Emmeline, it’s your turn to choose a game to-day. What story shall we do?’
‘No, Micky; it’s your turn,’ put in his twin sister Kitty. ‘Emmeline chose the day before yesterday.’
‘I know it’s my turn really, Kitty, but gentlemen always let ladies choose,’ said eight-year-old Micky with dignity. ‘I’d very much advise “Swiss Family Robinson,” because it seems such a splendid opportunity, now the curtain-rods are down, to use the short ones as sugar-canes; and Mary’s so sorry we’re going away to-morrow that she won’t be cross even if the paint does get a little kicked off the bath when it’s being wrecked.’
‘Micky, I think it’s horrid of you to talk of Mary’s being sorry like that,’ said Emmeline—‘just as if you didn’t care a bit about our having to leave the home of a lifetime, and the only real friend who has been with us since we were babies, to go and live with an aunt who doesn’t care for us!’