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Title: Aunt Hannah and Seth

Author: James Otis

Release Date: February 13, 2010 [EBook #31265]

Language: English

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[Illustration:

AUNT HANNAH
AND SETH

A STORY OF SOME
PEOPLE AND
A DOG. BY
JAMES
OTIS]

[Illustration: "'HI, LIMPY!' A SHRILL VOICE CRIED."]

[Illustration:

_Aunt Hannah
And Seth

By

James Otis

Author of
"How Tommy Saved the Barn" etc.

New York
Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
Publishers_]

Copyright, 1900, by

THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--AN ADVERTISEMENT, 1

II.--THE COUNTRY, 20

III.--AUNT HANNAH, 39

IV.--THE FLIGHT, 58

V.--AN ACCIDENT, 76

VI.--SUNSHINE, 95

AUNT HANNAH.

CHAPTER I.

AN ADVERTISEMENT.

A SMALL boy with a tiny white dog in his arms stood near the New York
approach to the Brooklyn Bridge on a certain June morning not many
years since, gazing doubtfully at the living tide which flowed past
him, as if questioning whether it might be safe to venture across the
street.

Seth Barrows, otherwise known by his acquaintances as Limpy Seth,
because of what they were pleased to speak of as "a pair of legs that
weren't mates," was by no means dismayed by the bustle and apparent
confusion everywhere around him. Such scenes were familiar, he having
lived in the city, so far as he knew, from the day of his birth; but,
owing to his slight lameness, it was not always a simple matter for
him to cross the crowded streets.

"Hi, Limpy!" a shrill voice cried from amid the pedestrians in the
distance, and as Seth looked quickly toward the direction from which
had come the hail, he noted that a boy with hair of such a vivid hue
of red as woul