CHICAGO
The Reilly & Britton Co.
Publishers.


[List of Chapters]

Page
[I]The Picnic5
[II]Prairie-Dog Town13
[III]Mr. Bowko, the Mayor18
[IV]Presto Digi, the Magician26
[V]The Home of the Puff-Pudgys34
[VI]Teenty and Weenty42
[VII]The Mayor Gives a Luncheon49
[VIII]On Top of the Earth Again57

Copyright, 1906, by The Reilly & Britton Co.


[Chapter I]
The Picnic

On the great western prairies of Dakota is a little town called Edgeley, because it is on the edge of civilization—a very big word which means some folks have found a better way to live than other folks. The Edgeley people have a good way to live, for there are almost seventeen wooden houses there, and among them is a school-house, a church, a store and a blacksmith-shop. If people walked out their front doors they were upon the little street; if they walked out the back doors they were on the broad prairies. That was why Twinkle, who was a farmer's little girl, lived so near the town that she could easily walk to school.