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Read Ebook: Adventures of the runaway rocking chair by Garis Howard Roger Campbell Lang Illustrator
Font size: Background color: Text color: Add to tbrJar First Page Next PageEbook has 741 lines and 23701 words, and 15 pagesADVENTURES OF THE RUNAWAY ROCKING CHAIR HOWARD R. GARIS ILLUSTRATED BY LANG CAMPBELL GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS NEW YORK HAPPY HOME SERIES BY HOWARD R. GARIS Adventures of the Galloping Gas Stove Adventures of the Runaway Rocking Chair Adventures of the Traveling Table Adventures of the Sliding Foot Stool Adventures of the Sailing Sofa GROSSET & DUNLAP Made in the United States of America WHAT THERE IS IN THIS BOOK You will find ADVENTURE ONE--GRANDMA BAKES A CAKE All printed out on ... PAGE 5 Then comes the next ADVENTURE TWO--RACKY RUNS AWAY So chase him to ... PAGE 25 After that, if all goes well, there is ADVENTURE THREE--EXCITEMENT IN THE HOUSE To find it skip to ... PAGE 39 Now you are to read ADVENTURE FOUR--SLIDING DOWN HILL Which starts on ... PAGE 55 If you liked that, there is another, ADVENTURE FIVE--THE SINGING GIRL Whose songs are told about on ... PAGE 71 And, when you come down, you will find ADVENTURE SEVEN--THE SNOW STORM Which blows you to ... PAGE 96 Finishing that, waiting for you is ADVENTURE EIGHT--A LITTLE OLD WOMAN Tramping through the snow to ... PAGE 113 And now, Oh joy! comes ADVENTURE NINE--SANTA CLAUS Who surprises you on ... PAGE 131 Then everything comes to a happy end in ADVENTURE TEN--THE RATTLE-BANG To find out what that is turn to ... PAGE 143 ADVENTURES OF THE RUNAWAY ROCKING CHAIR ADVENTURE I GRANDMA BAKES A CAKE "Come, children, it is time to go to school!" Grandma Harden waddled out on the front porch of the Happy Home where Nat and Weezie were playing with Rodney and Addie, the boy and girl from next door. Nat, whose real name was Nathaniel, and Weezie, whose real name was Louisa, called their house "Happy Home," because they had so much fun and so many jolly adventures in it. Thump, who was Rodney's dog, was sitting on the bottom step of the porch, waiting for some one to throw a stone, so that he might run after it to bring it back. But Rodney and Nat were too busy, talking about going fishing, to think of throwing stones for Thump. And Weezie and Addie were trying a new dress on Addie's doll, so, of course, they couldn't play with a dog. Thump wagged his tail and whined softly. That was his way of saying: "Oh, please, somebody, throw a stone! Let me show you how fast I can run after it!" But Grandma waddled farther out on the porch--she just had to waddle like a duck because she was so jolly and fat--and Grandma said again: "Come, my dears, it's time to go to school!" "Oh, I wish there wasn't any school!" exclaimed Nat. "So do I!" echoed his chum. "Then we could go fishing now, instead of waiting until after school!" "You'll have a lot more fun fishing, if you go to school first," said Grandma. "Then you won't be worrying over the lessons you missed." "I wouldn't worry over any lessons!" boasted Rodney. "Nor I," said Nat. "School's no fun! But I guess we'll have to go." "Yes," sighed his chum, and slowly they got to their feet. Thump took this as a sign they were going to throw stones for him, or, at least, play in some way, so he leaped joyfully about and barked. But a moment later Thump's happy bark stopped, his wagging tail drooped between his legs and he looked sad as Rodney cried: "Go home, Thump! Go back home!" "Poor dog!" murmured Grandma Harden. Thump looked up on hearing a friendly voice, and wagged his tail again. "He would so love to come with you!" said the dear, old lady. "I'd like to have him," admitted Rodney, "but if I let Mm come part way it's harder to make him go home." "The other day he walked right into school after us!" said Addie with a laugh. "And the teacher made Rod come out with Thump." "Oh, say!" eagerly exclaimed Nat, "let's take him along now, and if he comes in school I'll ask teacher if I can't help you lead him out, and we could be a long while at it and not go back, maybe until school was almost out! Hey! How about that?" "Nothing at all about that!" laughed Grandma, until her body was shaking like a big bowl of jelly--Oh, Grandma Harden was very fat--there was no getting away from that! "Don't try any such tricks!" she went on, playfully shaking her fingers at the boys. "It wouldn't be right to use a dog like that!" "No, I guess it wouldn't," agreed Rodney. "Go on home, Thump," he said, more softly. "We'll play with you this afternoon." "We'll take you fishing with us," added Nat. "We'll have to do all our fishing pretty soon, now," he added as he and his chum walked toward the front gate, while Thump, still sadly drooping his tail, slunk off through the grass to his kennel next door. "Why shall we have to do all our fishing soon?" asked Rod. "Because it will soon be winter," explained Nat. "The water with the fish in will freeze." "It's nice and warm to-day," said Weezie, who walked on ahead, with her playmate, Addie. The girls were rather more afraid, than were the boys, of being late for school. "Yes, it's warm to-day," admitted Nat, "but there was a frost last night, I heard Daddy say, and to-night may be colder and freeze water." "Then it will soon be Christmas!" exclaimed Weezie joyfully. Add to tbrJar First Page Next Page |
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