Queer Stories for Boys and Girls

to be raised to buy the machine. The seven boys were together, for Tommy Puffer had gone ho

llars and fifty cents to be raised. Willie ran across the street and brought Mr. Marble. He said he had made up his mind to give the boys a book apiece, and that each book would cost a doll

aw the bright side of things, "that makes i

and you're eleven feet high

in, and inquired how much his

half," said

ll you give me th

Life of George Stephenson, and s

er, he said: "Mrs. Martin must have a machine, and that three and a half

to do it, and he guessed it would come somehow. The other boys, when they came to church that evening, told Willie that their presents were co

sses had given all they could. And the teachers would each give in their classes. And they had raised

Tommy Puffer. He said it was real mean not to have any candy. They might just as well not have any Sunday-school, or any Christmas either. But seeing a naughty twinkle in Sammy Bantam's eye, he waddled away, wh

e with stunted Sammy Bantam at his heels to keep him in countenance. When their p

r son-"I protest against such an outrage on the children. My Tommy's been a-f

forgot it, and, turning his intellig

n's heart if her children

arish, and I won't take any impudence. My son will join the Mission School, where they aren

d other dainties, contributed by families. So that the candy money was only sixteen dollars, and Wi