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| CHAPTER I. | |
| Stolen Sweets. | [7] |
| CHAPTER II. | |
| Fallen Fortunes. | [22] |
| CHAPTER III. | |
| Mrs. Thompson’s Cross. | [38] |
| CHAPTER IV. | |
| Becky Sleeper’s Charity. | [56] |
| CHAPTER V. | |
| In School and Out. | [73] |
| CHAPTER VI. | |
| Becky’s Last Frolic. | [90] |
| CHAPTER VII. | |
| Mrs. Thompson Disobeys Orders. | [104] |
| CHAPTER VIII. | |
| Becky’s New Birth. | [122] |
| CHAPTER IX. | |
| Teddy Sleeper Dines Out. | [145] |
| CHAPTER X. | |
| The Romance of a Poor Old Maid. | [161] |
| CHAPTER XI. | |
| Becky Beards the Lion in his Den. | [176] |
| CHAPTER XII. | |
| Among the Woodpeckers. | [197] |
| CHAPTER XIII. | |
| Delia Sleeper’s Ship Comes in. | [215] |
| CHAPTER XIV. | |
| Two Years After. | [231] |
RUNNING TO WASTE.
CHAPTER I.
STOLEN SWEETS.
“Bouncers, Teddy! the roundest and the rosiest. Drop them, quick! My apron’s all ready for the darlings.”
“It’s very well to say drop them; but it’s just as much as I can do to keep from falling myself. Don’t you see I’m holding on with both hands?”
“What a fuss you do make! Come down, and let me try. I never saw a tree yet big enough to scare me.”
“Who’s scart, Becky Sleeper? I ain’t—not by a long chalk. When a feller’s holdin’ on with both hands, he can’t be expected to pick very quick—can he?”