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Under the Lilacs - Chapter 4
2023-12-05"I ran away from a circus," began Ben, but got no further, for Bab and Betty gave a simultaneous bounce of delight, and both cried out at on...
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Under the Lilacs - Chapter 5
2023-12-05When 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 ...
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Under the Lilacs - Chapter 6
2023-12-05After 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 appearanc...
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Under the Lilacs - Chapter 7
2023-12-05Next day Ben ran off to his work with Quackenbos's "Elementary History of the United States" in his pocket, and the Squire's cows ha...
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Under the Lilacs - Chapter 8
2023-12-05Ben 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 child...
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Under the Lilacs - Chapter 9
2023-12-05Exactly 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 ...
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Under the Lilacs - Chapter 10
2023-12-05"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 broo...
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Under the Lilacs - Chapter 11
2023-12-05Mrs. 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 show...
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Under the Lilacs - Chapter 12
2023-12-05Every 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. M...
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Under the Lilacs - Chapter 13
2023-12-05"'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, wh...