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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Master Sunshine, by Mrs. C. F. Fraser This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Master Sunshine Author: Mrs. C. F. Fraser Posting Date: August 8, 2009 [EBook #4571] Release Date: October, 2003 First Posted: February 11, 2002 Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MASTER SUNSHINE *** Produced by Robert Rowe, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. HTML version by Al Haines. MASTER SUNSHINE BY MRS. C. F. FRASER CONTENTS. I. WHO HE WAS II. THE WANDERER AND HIS WIFE III. THE RAINY DAY IV. A SUNDAY WITH FATHER V. BEING A HERO VI. KIND DEEDS VII. A HAPPY ENDING CHAPTER I. WHO HE WAS. Of course his real name was not Master Sunshine. Who ever heard of a boy with a name like that? But his mother said that long before he could speak he chose the name for himself, for even as a baby he was full of a cheery good humor that was always sparkling out in his winning smiles and his rippling laugh. He was a good-natured, happy child from the time that he could toddle about; and he was very young when he began to give pleasure to his friends by serving them in all the little ways within his power. The very golden curls that topped his small head glistened as if they had caught and imprisoned the glory of the morning sun; and it really did seem as if a better name could not be found for the merry, helpful little fellow than Master Sunshine. His real name was a very different affair--Frederick Alexander Norton--and his boy friends called him Freddy for short. His little sister Lucy called him "buzzer" and Suns'ine; and Almira Jane, the help, who made the brownest and crispest of molasses cookies, and the most delicious twisted doughnuts, said he was a "swate angel of light," except at such times as she called him a "rascalpion." Master Sunshine never stopped to argue with Almira Jane when she called him a "rascalpion." He knew that this was a plain sign that she was getting "nervous;" and when Almira Jane was nervous, it was always best for small boys to be out of the way. A little later, when the kitchen floor
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