Georgie

Jacob Abbott

Description

American author Jacob Abbott revolutionized juvenile fiction in the 1800s with his unprecedentedly successful Rollo series of chapter books. In this volume of the series, our young hero Rollo forms a strong bond with a chronically ill neighbor boy, Georgie.

Sujets

• Children's

Informations

• Publié par: The Floating Press
• Date de parution: 01 mai 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781776589593
• Langue: English

Extrait

GEORGIE
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JACOB ABBOTT
 
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Georgie First published in 1857 Epub ISBN 978-1-77658-959-3 Also available: PDF ISBN 978-1-77658-960-9 © 2014 The Floating Press and its licensors. All rights reserved. While every effort has been used to ensure the accuracy and reliability of the information contained in The Floating Press edition of this book, The Floating Press does not assume liability or responsibility for any errors or omissions in this book. The Floating Press does not accept responsibility for loss suffered as a result of reliance upon the accuracy or currency of information contained in this book. Do not use while operating a motor vehicle or heavy equipment. Many suitcases look alike. Visit www.thefloatingpress.com
Contents
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The Little Landing Georgie's Money Two Good Friends A Lecture on Playthings The Young Drivers The Toy-Shop
The Little Landing
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A short distance from where Rollo lives, there is a small, but verypleasant house, just under the hill, where you go down to the stonebridge leading over the brook. There is a noble large apple tree on oneside of the house, which bears a beautiful, sweet, and mellow kind ofapple, called golden pippins. A great many other trees and flowers arearound the house, and in the little garden on the side of it towards thebrook. There is a small white gate that leads to the house, from theroad; and there is a pleasant path leading right out from the frontdoor, through the garden, down to the water. This is the house thatGeorgie lives in.
One evening, just before sunset, Rollo was coming along over the stonebridge, towards home. He stopped a moment to look over the railing,down into the water Presently he heard a very sweet-toned voice callingout to him,
"Rol-lo."
Rollo looked along in the direction in which the sound came. It was fromthe bank of the stream, a little way from the road, at the place wherethe path from Georgie's house came down to the water. The brook wasbroad, and the water pretty smooth and still here; and it was a placewhere Rollo had often been to sail boats with Georgie.