HIS CROTCHETS AND ODDITIES.
Reading edition
With Tinted Illustrations.
BY
UNCLE FRANK,
AUTHOR OF "A PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS," "THE PEDDLER'S BOY," "THE DIVING BELL," "WILLOW LANE STORIES," ETC.
BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & COMPANY, PUBLISHERS.
Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1852, By Phillips, Sampson & Co., In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts.
STEREOTYPED BY BILLIN & BROTHERS, No. 10 North William Street, N.Y. WRIGHT & HASTY, Printers, 3 Water Street, Boston.
CONTENTS.
Page
CHAPTER I.
ABOUT CROTCHETS 7
CHAPTER II.
CROTCHETY FOLKS 15
CHAPTER III.
LIGHTS AND SHADOWS 27
CHAPTER IV.
CHIPS FROM BIRCH WOODS 35
CHAPTER V.
A PAIR OF THIEVES 54
CHAPTER VI.
PAYING HIM OFF 68
CHAPTER VII.
MIKE'S CROTCHETS IN WAR-TIME 92
CHAPTER VIII.
THE BUMBLE-BEES' NEST 109
CHAPTER IX.
HOW A BARN WAS BUILT 127
CHAPTER X.
ANOTHER BLOCK OF MARBLE 134
CHAPTER XI.
MIKE MARBLE'S LAST DAYS 150
ILLUSTRATIONS.
MIKE'S CROTCHETS IN WAR-TIME (Frontispiece)
VIGNETTE TITLE-PAGE 1
THE BOY IN THE WOODS 48
OLD IRONSIDES AND THE CHILDREN 63
A CRYING SPELL 77
PAYING FOR MISCHIEF 124
MIKE MARBLE AND THE BEGGAR 135
MIKE MARBLE IN HIS OLD AGE 147