Subject for November, 2016
Chapter 14 – Somebody Gets Lost
Subject: Under The Lilacs
Putting all care behind them, the young folks ran down the hill, with a very lively dog gambolling beside them, and took a delightfully tantalizing survey of the external char...
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Chapter 13 – Somebody Runs Away
Subject: Under The Lilacs
"’School is done, Now we’ll have fun," Sung Bab and Betty, slamming down their books as if they never meant to take them up again, when they came...
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Chapter 12 – Good Times
Subject: Under The Lilacs
Every one was very kind to Ben when his loss was known. The Squire wrote to Mr. Smithers that the boy had found friends and would stay where he was. Mrs. Moss consoled him in...
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Chapter 11 – Sunday
Subject: Under The Lilacs
Mrs. Moss woke Ben with a kiss next morning, for her heart yearned over the fatherless lad as if he had been her own, and she had no other way of showing her sympathy. Ben had...
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Chapter 10 – A Heavy Trouble
Subject: Under The Lilacs
"Thank you, ma’am, that’s a tip-top book, ‘specially the pictures. But I can’t bear to see these poor fellows;" and Ben brooded over the fin...
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Chapter 9 – A Happy Tea
Subject: Under The Lilacs
Exactly five minutes before six the party arrived in great state, for Bab and Betty wore their best frocks and hair-ribbons, Ben had a new blue shirt and his shoes on as full-...
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Chapter 8 – Miss Celia’s Man
Subject: Under The Lilacs
Ben was not too tired, and the clearing-up began that very night. None too soon, for in a day or two things arrived, to the great delight of the children, who considered movi...
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Chapter 7 – New Friends Trot In
Subject: Under The Lilacs
Next day Ben ran off to his work with Quackenbos’s "Elementary History of the United States" in his pocket, and the Squire’s cows had ample time to break...
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Chapter 6 – A Circulating Library
Subject: Under The Lilacs
After supper that night, Bab and Betty sat in the old porch playing with Josephus and Belinda, and discussing the events of the day; for the appearance of the strange boy and ...
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Chapter 5 – Ben Gets A Place
Subject: Under The Lilacs
When Ben awoke next morning, he looked about him for a moment half bewildered, because there was neither a canvas tent, a barn roof, nor the blue sky above him, but a neat whi...
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