LITTLE PRUDY'S CHILDREN
JIMMY, LUCY, AND ALL
BY
SOPHIE MAY
AUTHOR OF "LITTLE PRUDY STORIES" "DOTTY DIMPLE STORIES""LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES" "FLAXIE FRIZZLESERIES" "THE QUINNEBASSET SERIES" ETC.
BOSTONLEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS1900
COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY LEE AND SHEPARD.
All Rights Reserved.
JIMMY, LUCY, AND ALL.
Norwood PressJ.S. Cushing & Co.—Berwick & SmithNorwood Mass. U.S.A.
CONTENTS
I. THE TALLYHO
II. THE FIRST DINNER
III. LUCY'S GOLD MINE
IV. "THE KNITTING-WOMAN"
V. THE AIR-CASTLE
VI. "GRANDMA GRAYMOUSE"
VII. THE ZEBRA KITTEN
VIII. STEALING A CHIMNEY
IX. "CHICKEN LITTLE" AND JOE
X. THE THIEF FOUND
XI. BEGGING PARDON
XII. "THE LITTLE SCHOOLMA'AM'S EARTHQUAKE"
XIII. NATE'S CAVE
XIV. JIMMY'S GOOD LUCK
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"Edith was busy taking their photographs"
"'It is perfectly awful!' said Aunt Lucy"
Edith painting the Cherub for Mrs. McQuilken
"'James S. Dunlee, will you forgive me?'"
I
THE TALLYHO
"I never saw a gold mine in my life; andnow I'm going to see one," cried Lucy, skippingalong in advance of the others. It wasquite a large party; the whole Dunlee family,with the two Sanfords,—Uncle James andAunt Vi,—making ten in all, counting Maggie,the maid. They had alighted from the carsat a way-station, and were walking along theplatform toward the tallyho coach which waswaiting for them. Lucy was firmly impressedwith the idea that they were starting for thegold mines. The truth was, they were ontheir way to an old mining-town high up inthe Cuyamaca Mountains, called Castle Cliff;but there had been no gold there for a greatmany years.
Mr. Dunlee was in rather poor health, andhad been "ordered" to the mountains. Theothers were perfectly well and had not been"ordered" anywhere: they were going merelybecause they wanted to have a good time.
"Papa would be so lonesome without uschildren," said Edith, "he needs us all forcompany."
He was to have still more company. Mr.and Mrs. Hale were coming to-morrow tojoin the party, bringing their little daughterBarbara, Lucy's dearest friend. They couldnot come to-day; there would have beenhardly room for them in the tallyho. With all"the bonnie Dunlees,"—as Uncle James calledthe children,—and all the boxes, baskets, an