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THE
BROWN MOUSE
By
HERBERT QUICK
Author of
Aladdin & Company, The Broken Lance
On Board the Good Ship Earth, Etc.
INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1915
The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Printed in the United States of America
PRESS OF
BRAUNWORTH & CO.
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
BROOKLYN, N. Y.
Contents
I A Maiden’s “Humph” 1
II Reversed Unanimity 24
III What Is a Brown Mouse 38
IV The First Day of School 48
V The Promotion of Jennie 55
VI Jim Talks the Weather Cold 65
VII The New Wine 75
VIII And the Old Bottles 89
IX Jennie Arranges a Christmas Party 99
X How Jim Was Lined Up 111
XI The Mouse Escapes 122
XII Facing Trial 132
XIII Fame or Notoriety 147
XIV The Colonel Takes the Field 164
XV A Minor Casts Half a Vote 188
XVI The Glorious Fourth 203
XVII A Trouble Shooter 218
XVIII Jim Goes to Ames 235
XIX Jim’s World Widens 242
XX Think of It 248
XXI A School District Held Up 258
XXII An Embassy From Dixie 277
XXIII And So They Lived—— 295
THE BROWN MOUSE