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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