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    Bobby of Cloverfield Farm
    Bobby of Cloverfield Farm
    Bobby of Cloverfield Farm
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    Bobby of Cloverfield Farm

    By Robert Emmett Owen and Helen Fuller Orton

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Bobby of Cloverfield Farm - Robert Emmett Owen

      Project Gutenberg's Bobby of Cloverfield Farm, by Helen Fuller Orton

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      Title: Bobby of Cloverfield Farm

      Author: Helen Fuller Orton

      Illustrator: R. Emmett Owen

      Release Date: May 1, 2009 [EBook #28652]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOBBY OF CLOVERFIELD FARM ***

      Produced by Mark C. Orton, Josephine Paolucci and the

      Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net.

      (This file was produced from images generously made

      available by The Internet Archive.)

      BOBBY OF CLOVERFIELD FARM

      'I can't stop to play now. I'm on important business'

      BOBBY OF CLOVERFIELD FARM

      BY

      HELEN FULLER ORTON

      Author of Prince and Rover of Cloverfield Farm

      WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND DECORATIONS BY

      R. EMMETT OWEN

      NEW YORK

      FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

      PUBLISHERS

      Copyright, 1922, by

      HELEN FULLER ORTON

      All Rights Reserved

      First Printing, June 17, 1922

      Second Printing, November 3, 1922

      Third Printing, May 15, 1923

      Fourth Printing, April 25, 1924

      Fifth Printing, August 26, 1924

      Sixth Printing, February 27, 1926

      Seventh Printing, April 2, 1927

      Eighth Printing, August 1, 1928

      Ninth Printing, August 6, 1929

      Tenth Printing, January 31, 1931

      Eleventh Printing, August 10, 1933

      Printed in the United States of America

      CONTENTS

      CHAPTER PAGE

      I What Robin Redbreast Knew 1

      II Bobby's Kite 10

      III The Old Brown Hen 21

      IV The Sheep Washing 29

      V The Sheep Shearing 38

      VI Red Top 46

      VII Haying Time 54

      VIII On Top of the World 63

      IX Bobby Forgets 69

      X Rover Goes to the Store 76

      XI The Ducks A-Swimming Go 85

      XII The Rescue 91

      XIII Bobby's Horseback Ride 98

      XIV The Big South Window 105

      XV One Stormy Night 119

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      'I can't stop to play now, I'm on important business' Frontispiece

      FACING PAGE

      'Hello, Robin Redbreast,' called Bobby, 'I'm glad you are back again' 7

      Up, up, went the kite into the sky 12

      When he saw it he cried, 'Somebody's been digging in my garden and here she is fast asleep' 27

      Before they could run across the bridge, Old Bell Wether walked up out of the creek and started for home 35

      'Stop, Father, stop!' he said 58

      Bobby clung to Rover's collar until they reached shallow water 94

      Bobby felt happy and grand. Prince felt happy and grand 100

      I

      One cold morning in March, Bobby Hill was wakened by a sound he had not heard since last Fall, Chirp, chirp, cheer-up.

      That sounds just like a robin, he thought.

      He sat up in bed and looked out of the window. It was a cold, dark, stormy morning. Heavy clouds covered the sky. The North wind was blowing the snow hither and thither.

      Bobby leaned nearer the window so he could see the ground. There was the snow like a blanket of white over the yard and the road and the fields. There were the snowdrifts like mountains and castles along the fences.

      Bobby shivered as he looked at it and snuggled back under the covers.

      I must have been dreaming, he thought. It isn't time for robins.

      But he had no sooner settled down for another nap than he heard it again, Chirp, chirp, cheer-up.

      He got up and dressed quickly and went downstairs.

      Mother, he said, I heard something that sounded just like a robin. What could it have been?

      "It was a robin, said Mother. Come here and see him."

      Bobby ran to the Big South Window. There on a branch of the maple tree was Robin Redbreast singing merrily.

      I thought the robins always stayed down South until Spring, said Bobby. Why did he come back in the dead of Winter?

      Spring is almost here, said Mother.

      Oh, indeed it can't be, said Bobby, it is so cold and snowy.

      Robin knows, said Mother.

      But Bobby looked out and saw the fields still covered with snow, and saw the huge snowdrifts like mountains and castles along the fences and the whirling snowflakes in the air, and thought, Robin is mistaken this time.

      After he had finished his morning chores, Bobby took his sled and slid down the little hill at the side of the house, as he had done nearly every day all Winter. Twenty-seven times he slid down the hill.

      Then he and Rover, the Big Shepherd Dog, went across the field to the snowdrifts in the fence corners. Bobby

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