[Chapter I.]
[Chapter II.]
[Chapter III.]
[Chapter IV.]
CHAPTER I.
"I wish the holidays, were here!" said Frank Grey, to his school-fellow, George Grant, "for I want so much to see 'The Crystal Palace;' and I know Grandma will take me, if I ask her."
"Ah! it must be a jolly place, I'm sure," said George; "but I shall never see it, I dare say."
"Why not?" asked Frank; "just tell your Grandmother, and she will take you, too."
"But I have no Grandmother," said George, despondingly; "I never had, as long as I can recollect."
"Oh! then I don't know what you are to do, I'm sure," said Frank; "unless you have an aunt or uncle who will take you: for you have no mother, have you?"
"Why, certainly, I have," replied George, laughing, "and a father, too; but then he is always busy in the factory; and mother, she is mostly poorly, or shut up in the nursery with the little children, and often says, she's sorry that she has neither time nor strength to take me sight-seeing."