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Title: Jimmy, Lucy, and All

Author: Sophie May

Release Date: January 5, 2005 [EBook #14608]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "Edith was busy taking their photographs". Page 41.]

LITTLE PRUDY'S CHILDREN

JIMMY, LUCY, AND ALL

BY

SOPHIE MAY

AUTHOR OF "LITTLE PRUDY STORIES" "DOTTY DIMPLE STORIES"
"LITTLE PRUDY'S FLYAWAY SERIES" "FLAXIE FRIZZLE
SERIES" "THE QUINNEBASSET SERIES" ETC.

BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD PUBLISHERS
1900

COPYRIGHT, 1900, BY LEE AND SHEPARD.

_All Rights Reserved._

JIMMY, LUCY, AND ALL.

Norwood Press
J.S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE TALLYHO
II. THE FIRST DINNER
III. LUCY'S GOLD MINE
IV. "THE KNITTING-WOMAN"
V. THE AIR-CASTLE
VI. "GRANDMA GRAYMOUSE"
VII. THE ZEBRA KITTEN
VIII. STEALING A CHIMNEY
IX. "CHICKEN LITTLE" AND JOE
X. THE THIEF FOUND
XI. BEGGING PARDON
XII. "THE LITTLE SCHOOLMA'AM'S EARTHQUAKE"
XIII. NATE'S CAVE
XIV. JIMMY'S GOOD LUCK

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Edith was busy taking their photographs"
"'It is perfectly awful!' said Aunt Lucy"
Edith painting the Cherub for Mrs. McQuilken
"'James S. Dunlee, will--you--forgive me?'"

JIMMY, LUCY, AND ALL

I

THE TALLYHO

"I never saw a gold mine in my life; and now I'm going to see one,"
cried Lucy, skipping along in advance of the others. It was quite a
large party; the whole Dunlee family, with the two Sanfords,--Uncle
James and Aunt Vi,--making ten in all, counting Maggie, the maid. They
had alighted from the cars at a way-station, and were walking along the
platform toward the tallyho coach which was waiting for them. Lucy was
firmly impressed with the idea that they were starting for the gold
mines. The truth was, they were on their way to an old mining-town high
up in the Cuyamaca Mountains, called Castle Cliff; but there had been no
gold there for a great many