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    Bobby in Search of a Birthday
    Bobby in Search of a Birthday
    Bobby in Search of a Birthday
    Ebook83 pages46 minutes

    Bobby in Search of a Birthday

    By Josef Pierre Nuyttens and Lebbeus Mitchell

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013

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      Bobby in Search of a Birthday - Josef Pierre Nuyttens

      Project Gutenberg's Bobby in Search of a Birthday, by Lebbeus Mitchell

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      Title: Bobby in Search of a Birthday

      Author: Lebbeus Mitchell

      Illustrator: Joseph Pierre Nuyttens

      Release Date: August 27, 2013 [EBook #43569]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BOBBY IN SEARCH OF A BIRTHDAY ***

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      Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from

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      BOBBY IN SEARCH

      OF A BIRTHDAY

      BY

      Lebbeus Mitchell

      Cover and Illustrations

      by

      Joseph Pierre Nuyttens

      CHICAGO

      P. F. VOLLAND & CO.

      1916

      Copyright 1916

      P. F. VOLLAND & CO.

      CHICAGO, U. S. A.

      All rights reserved

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      CHAPTER I

      Once When Bobby Wasn't Left Behind.

      CHAPTER II

      The Boy With Eight Birthdays.

      CHAPTER III

      Hunting for the Thing You Mustn't Think About.

      CHAPTER IV

      The Lady Who Likes Little Boys.

      CHAPTER V

      The Man With the Pocketful of Quarters Reappears.

      CHAPTER VI

      The Borrowed Birthday.

      CHAPTER VII

      All the Perquisites Pertaining Thereto.

      CHAPTER VIII

      Fathers and Mothers and Things Like That.

      BOBBY IN SEARCH

      OF A BIRTHDAY

      ———————

      CHAPTER I

      ONCE WHEN BOBBY WASN'T LEFT BEHIND

      Bobby North went out into the front yard by the iron gate between the two tall stone columns to watch the horses and wagons and 'mobiles traveling up and down that invitingly dusty and mysterious road that he was forbidden ever to set foot upon.

      He knew he could crawl under the gate, he was so little, and raise clouds of dust by dragging his feet in the road as two small boys did who passed by and stopped to gaze in wonder at Bobby and at the big brick house set back in the yard among some trees. He wondered if the Supe'tendent would really send him to bed without anything to eat if he disobeyed her just this once and slipped under the gate, out into the road for as many as forty or a dozen minutes.

      He was afraid she really might, and was standing with face pressed against the iron bars of the gate when a man drove up back of him with a buggy jammed as full as it would hold of boys and girls from the Home.

      Bobby North! cried the sharp, irritated voice of the Supe'tendent. How many times must I tell you to keep away from that gate!

      He turned clear around and saw on the porch the tall, thin figure of the Supe'tendent. The man in the buggy jumped out to open the gate. Bobby stepped back from the graveled road, for he knew by experience that it is always safer, if you are a small boy, to keep out of the way of grown-up folks—then they can't scold you for doing something you mustn't, or not doing something you should, even when you had never thought of doing either one.

      He looked up longingly at the buggy load of boys and girls who were going to explore the mysteries of that delightfully dusty road and not coming back for maybe forty or a dozen days. Bobby was used to being left behind and stepped further away, but without taking his lonely eyes off those more fortunate children.

      When the man had opened the gate, he stopped and looked at Bobby and then at the Supe'tendent on the porch. He came directly towards Bobby as he kept backing away, caught him up in his arms and tossed him into the lap of the lady who sat on the front seat!

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