The Brown Mouse

by Herbert Quick

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THE

BROWN MOUSE

By

HERBERT QUICK

Author of

Aladdin & Company, The Broken Lance

On Board the Good Ship Earth, Etc.

INDIANAPOLIS

THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

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Copyright 1915

The Bobbs-Merrill Company

Printed in the United States of America

PRESS OF

BRAUNWORTH & CO.

BOOK MANUFACTURERS

BROOKLYN, N. Y.

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Contents

I	A Maiden’s “Humph”	[1]
II	Reversed Unanimity	[24]
III	What Is a Brown Mouse	[38]
IV	The First Day of School	[48]
V	The Promotion of Jennie	[55]
VI	Jim Talks the Weather Cold	[65]
VII	The New Wine	[75]
VIII	And the Old Bottles	[89]
IX	Jennie Arranges a Christmas Party	[99]
X	How Jim Was Lined Up	[111]
XI	The Mouse Escapes	[122]
XII	Facing Trial	[132]
XIII	Fame or Notoriety	[147]
XIV	The Colonel Takes the Field	[164]
XV	A Minor Casts Half a Vote	[188]
XVI	The Glorious Fourth	[203]
XVII	A Trouble Shooter	[218]
XVIII	Jim Goes to Ames	[235]
XIX	Jim’s World Widens	[242]
XX	Think of It	[248]
XXI	A School District Held Up	[258]
XXII	An Embassy From Dixie	[277]
XXIII	And So They Lived——	[295]

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THE BROWN MOUSE