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Read Ebook: Madame Adam (Juliette Lambert) la grande Française from Louis Philippe until 1917 by Whale Winifred Stephens
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Ebook has 492 lines and 17380 words, and 10 pages
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THE RAILROAD 9
THE FIRST TRAIN 13
A NARROW ESCAPE 17
SCHOOL 21
A MISTAKE IN SPELLING 25
DISOBEDIENT JIMMY CROW 29
A PRISONER 33
HOME AGAIN 37
THE STOLEN EGGS 41
AT THE FARM 45
COLORED EGGS 49
HENNY PENNY 53
THE DAM 57
GOOD NEWS 61
A PERPLEXED LITTLE RABBIT 64
THE TURNIP 68
THE BONFIRE 72
MRS. COW 76
THE SUGAR-COATED CARROT 79
BAD LUCK 83
LITTLE JACK RABBIT STUBS HIS TOE 87
MUD TURTLE TOWN 91
BOBBY TAIL 95
SUNSHINE 99
TURKEY TIM 103
PHOEBE PHEASANT 107
THE SNOWBALL 110
THE NEW SLEIGH 113
DAILY DUTIES 117
MRS. ORIOLE'S MIRROR 121
AN AIRSHIP RIDE 125
LITTLE JACK RABBIT'S ADVENTURES
THE RAILROAD
IT was a wild story that came to the ears of Little Jack Rabbit for, as he came hopping down the Shady Forest Path, a whole troop of his playmates ran out to meet him, and one cried one thing, and one another, but the words which he heard most plainly were:
"The railroad! The railroad! Oh, have you heard?"
"Yes," answered Little Jack Rabbit, not at all excited, "I know a railroad is going to run past the Sunny Meadow."
"Oh, but that's nothing! It's going to run right through your house!" cried Busy Beaver.
"Right through the Old Bramble Patch!" shouted Chippy Chipmunk.
"Right through your front door!" screamed Gray Squirrel.
"I don't believe that," said Little Jack Rabbit. "A railroad can't get through a door!"
"Why, of course they'll take out the door," replied Busy Beaver; "they'll pull down your whole house; they'll clear away the Old Bramble Patch; why, they may use the whole of the Sunny Meadow--every bit of it!"
But as he came up the Shady Forest Path that afternoon, he saw that the dear Old Bramble Patch was still there--that was one comfort. No wandering about tonight, at least.
And there, too, was his little brother, Bobby Tail, turning somersaults under the Old Chestnut Tree, and Mr. and Mrs. John Rabbit sitting quietly on the front doorstep.
So Little Jack Rabbit plucked up heart and asked Papa Rabbit if the railroad were going to take away the Old Bramble Patch and their house.
"No, it isn't," replied Mr. Rabbit, "but it's coming mighty close."
"I just knew it wasn't," said Little Jack Rabbit with a sigh of relief. "But Busy Beaver said it was and that I must pack up my clothes at once."
"Well, the line was laid out to run right through the dear Old Bramble Patch," said Mr. Rabbit, "but when they found it must cross the Old Duck Pond, they turned it to one side. So the dear Old Bramble Patch is safe."
THE FIRST TRAIN
Look out for the Choo-choo cars! Don't you hear the thunder jars? First the whistle, then the bell Clanging through the Forest Dell.
FOR weeks and weeks there was great excitement among the Little People of the Shady Forest and Sunny Meadow. From behind trees and bushes, rocks and stumps, they watched the building of the railroad.
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