| Charlie | [ Frontispiece] | |
| PAGE | ||
| The puppy drank all the milk | Opposite | [ 10] |
| Bingo had to travel in the baggage car | Facing | [ 43] |
| The rooster kept Bingo a prisoner | “ | [ 63] |
| Charlie blew a tremendous blast | “ | [ 77] |
| Charlie and the stage driver talk together | “ | [ 81] |
| The boat sailed beautifully | “ | [ 99] |
| Charlie watched the builders | Opposite | [ 107] |
| One of the strange boys held Bingo | Facing | [ 129] |
| Charlie made three villages | Opposite | [ 143] |
Charlie and His Puppy Bingo
TO READ FIRST
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!
BINGO COMES TO LIVE WITH CHARLIE
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!