My Little God-Daughter,
HELEN MUNN.
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
|---|---|---|
| I. | Cricket | [11] |
| II. | The Quarrel | [22] |
| III. | Damming the Brook | [34] |
| IV. | The Consequences | [43] |
| V. | Fourth of July | [50] |
| VI. | Making Ice-Cream | [61] |
| VII. | Mopsie | [71] |
| VIII. | What Mopsie did | [80] |
| IX. | The Kittens | [87] |
| X. | Elspeth | [97] |
| XI. | In the Garret | [104] |
| XII. | The Tramps | [114] |
| XIII. | Mamie Hecker | [124] |
| XIV. | Lynch-Law | [133] |
| XV. | Going to the Cider Mill | [144] |
| XVI. | The Runaway | [151] |
| XVII. | Going Blackberrying | [158] |
| XVIII. | Coming Home | [172] |
| XIX. | What Zaidee and Helen Found | [183] |
| XX. | Mamie’s Message | [195] |
| XXI. | The New Cow | [204] |
| XXII. | Mamie’s Repentance | [215] |
| XXIII. | When Mamma was a Little Girl | [223] |
| XXIV. | Mamma’s Bank | [234] |
| XXV. | Going Back to Town | [242] |
| XXVI. | Cricket’s Short Memory | [254] |
| XXVII. | Cricket’s Boomerang | [267] |
| XXVIII. | Kenneth’s Day | [284] |
| XXIX. | A Strawberry Hunt | [293] |
| XXX. | Left Behind | [309] |
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
| How Cricket Delivered the Message | [Frontispiece] |
|---|---|
| PAGE | |
| Hilda by the Brook | [25] |
| Celebrating the 4th of July | [57] |
| Eunice and Cricket Watching the Other Children | [89] |
| Cricket and Eunice Threaten to Punish Mamie | [135] |
| Cricket Trying to Catch the Minnows | [165] |
| Cricket Finds Eunice Unconscious | [209] |
| Cricket and ’Manda | [317] |
CRICKET
CHAPTER I.
CRICKET.
Kayuna was the loveliest home in the world. At least, the Ward children said so. The family usually went out of the city as soon as the children’s schools closed, in June, and stayed in the country till quite the first of October.
Kayuna was also the name of a brook that danced gayly through the lower part of the grounds of the summer home, and that was a never-failing delight to the children. The house itself was wide, old-fashioned and roomy, with such a splendid great garret as you never saw before, for rainy days.