True Stories from History and Biography

various sports, far off or near at hand. Sometimes you would have said, "Grandfather is asleep;" but still, even when

she weeded and watered the flower-bed which had been given her for her own. He could have counted every footstep that Charley took, as he trundled his wheelbarrow [pg 002] along the gravel walk. And though Grandfather was old and gray-haired,

round Grandfather's great chair. Little Alice, who was hardly five years old, took the privilege of the youngest, and climbed his knee. It was a pleasant thing to be

ead back upon his arm, "I am very tired now. Y

d Grandfather, smiling. "They are better satis

twice as old as little Alice. "We will all three keep wide awake. And p

that rose high above Grandfather's white head. This back was curiously carved in open work, so as to represent flowers and foliage and other devices; which the children had often gazed at, but could never unders

s been as old as they were now. At this time, however, it happened to be the fashion for ladies to adorn their drawing-rooms with the oldest and oddest chairs that could be found. It seemed to cousin Clara that if

lk to us about this

Perhaps your cousin Laurence would like to hear them too. They would teach him something [pg 004] about

indled at the idea of knowing all the adventures of this venerable chair. He looked eagerly in Grandfather's face; and even Charley, a bold, brisk

er, being much pleased with such an attentive audience,

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