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Brother Billy

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by George Bird Grinnell




  BROTHER BILLY

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  BROTHER BILLY

  Works of Frances Margaret Fox

  Farmer Brown and the Birds $ .50 The Little Giant's Neighbours .50 Mother Nature's Little Ones .50 Betty of Old Mackinaw .50 Brother Billy .50 Little Lady Marjorie 1.50

  L. C. PAGE & COMPANY New England Building Boston, Mass.

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  "'THAT'S MY AUNT FLORENCE'S LOCKET'"] (_See page 31_)

  Cosy Corner Series

  BROTHER BILLY

  by

  FRANCES MARGARET FOX

  Author of "Farmer Brown and the Birds," "Little LadyMarjorie," "Betty of Old Mackinaw," etc.

  Illustrated by Etheldred B. Barry

  BostonL. C. Page & Company1905

  Copyright, 1904By L. C. Page & Company(Incorporated)

  All rights reserved

  Published October, 1904

  Colonial PressElectrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co.Boston, Mass., U. S. A.

  TO MY DEAREST ONE =Lee Everett Joslyn, Jr.=

  CONTENTS]

  CHAPTER PAGE I. ENTERTAINING AUNT FLORENCE 1 II. INDIANS 8 III. BILLY GOES SWIMMING 24 IV. THE STEAM-TUG BILLY 35 V. ANTOINE LEBRINN 53 VI. ORANGES 67 VII. MINNAVAVANA'S BRAVES 72 VIII. ANTOINE'S BEAR STORIES 82 IX. UNCLE JOHN'S "OLD TIMER" 97 X. FISHING THROUGH THE ICE 105 XI. CHRISTMAS EVE 119

  ILLUSTRATIONS]

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  "'THAT'S MY AUNT FLORENCE'S LOCKET,'" (_See page 31_) _Frontispiece_ "'ISN'T IT QUEER ABOUT INDIAN TRAILS?'" 10 "EVERYTHING HE WORE WAS NEW" 34 "HE HELD BILLY ON HIS KNEE" 54 "WATCHING FROM BEHIND THE NORTH WALL OF THE EVERGREEN FORT" 76 "THERE WAS MERRIMENT WITHIN THE EVERGREEN FORT" 77 "SAMONE" 83 "BETTY ... WROTE HER PLEDGE" 109 "LIFTING HER IN HIS ARMS" 127

  BROTHER BILLY

 

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