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The Architect's Help
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The Painter's Help
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Joe-Boy
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The Bedroom
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The Parlor
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The Dining Room
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The Kitchen
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Joe-Boy's Room
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The Completed House
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Joe-Boy's Party
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Farmer Green's Cotton Seed
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Farmer Green Picks His Cotton
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The Cotton at the Ginhouse
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The Cotton at the Warehouse
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The Cotton at the Factory
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Joe-Boy's Birthday Dresses
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Joe-Boy's Linen Picture Book
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Father Gipsy's Surprise
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Joe-Boy's Silk Present
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The Woolen Balls' Story
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The Wooden Ball's Story
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Why the Trees Slept
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The Marble Palace
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Joe-Boy at Kindergarten
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Joe-Boy's Cow
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Lady Cow's Butter
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The Little Sick Girl
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Farmer Green's Grain
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The Miller
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The Kindergarten Lunch
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Joe-Boy's Letter
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How the Policeman Helped Joe-Boy
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How Lady Cow Was Saved
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Joe-Boy and the Doctor
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Joe-Boy in Church
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Joe-Boy's Pets
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Prince Charming
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Captain
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Snowball
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Silverlocks
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Pig-a-Wee
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The Rabbits That Wore the Blue Ribbon
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Mrs. Spider-Brown
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Mrs. Spider-Brown's Children
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Dimple and Dot
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Hippity-Hop
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The Wonderful Eggs
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Mrs. Speckle
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Buffy
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Buffy's Stepmother
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White-Wings
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The Little Pigeons Four
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The Carrier Pigeon
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The Return of the Bluebirds
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The Birds' Store
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Jenny-Wren
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The Gray-Swallows' Fright
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The Baby Mockingbirds
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How the Jaybirds Planted Trees
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The Broken Twig
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The Little Robins Three
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The Redbird's Story
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Mrs. Bobwhite's Family
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The Whippoorwill Twins
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Little Kitty Catbird
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The Thrushes' Picnic
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The Red-Headed Woodpecker
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Billy Sanders' Canary
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Dandy and the Sparrows
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Billy's Christmas Tree to the Birds
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The Brown Bulb-Babies
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Baby Lily
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The Little Worm That Helped
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The Merry, Merry Blossoms
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The Little Worm's Visit
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The Princess
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Bluette's Eggs
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Bluette's Babies
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Bluette's Smallest Baby
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The Surprise of the Sassafras Bush
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The Children's Garden
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How Prince Charming Helped
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The Vegetable Beds
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The Flower Beds
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Peggy Rose's Garden
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Jack's Beanstalk
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The Pea-Pods
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The Garden Party
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The Red, Red Nasturtium
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The Lady Petunia's Story
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Baby Dandelion
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Rosy Clover-Blossom-Boy
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Pretty Daisy-Fair
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Why the Sunflowers Hang Their Heads
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The Awakening of the Princess
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The Queen of the Bees
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The Queen's Eggs
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Busy-Wings
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Busy-Wings in Prison
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Busy-Wings' Color Lesson
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Bright-Eyes
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The Red Ants' Cows
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Bright-Eyes and the Nut
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The Ants' Bridge
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The Red Ants' Secret
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Little Jimmy Lightning-Bug
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Greenie June-Bug
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Vacation Time
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The Camping Trip, Part 1
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The Camping Trip, Part 2
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The Architect's Help
T
HE next morning while Mother Gipsy was bathing Joe-Boy,
she told him all about the new house she and Father
Gipsy were going to build for him, and Joe-Boy laughed
and crowed and jumped just as if he understood every
word.
"Yes," said Mother Gipsy, finding a new dimple to kiss,
"we are building this house for you, sir, because we
love you so, and right this very minute, Father Gipsy
is on his way to town to buy a pattern to make it by!"
Then she laughed to think of a pattern to make a house
by. But
dear me, don't you have to have patterns to make
dresses by? Then
how could you make a house without a pattern, I'd like
to know? Only
we would call them plans, and not patterns,
as Mother Gipsy did. Well,
sure enough, while she was talking, Father Gipsy was
walking very fast
down the street, and by and by he came to an office in
the town, with
"Architect" written over the door.
"This must be the place," said Father Gipsy, "because
architect means a man who makes plans to build houses
by. I shall go right in and see him about Joe-Boy's
house."
Sure enough there sat the architect at a big table,
busily drawing the pictures of houses. There were ink
and pens and pencils and paper all over his table, and
he was as busy as busy could be.
"Oh yes," he said to Father Gipsy, "I draw plans for
houses—large ones and small ones, brick houses, plank
houses and stone houses—let me show you some."
So Father Gipsy sat down by the table, and the
architect took down a big book full of houses and told
him to look for the one he liked the best. There were
so many pretty ones, though, that Father Gipsy could
hardly tell which one he did like the best, but at last
he found the very thing. A pretty cottage with a porch
all around it and five rooms—a kitchen, a dining room,
a parlor, a bed room and a play room for Joe-Boy.
So Father Gipsy took out his big leather pocket book
and gave some of his dollars to the architect for the
house plan, and then he hurried to the tent to show it
to Mother Gipsy and see how she liked it.
"Why, it's just the thing," said Mother Gipsy, "all the
rooms and the porch just as I wished. How nice it is to
have architects to help us build our houses. I'm sure I
thank this one very much, for drawing such a beautiful
plan for the other workmen to look at while they build
Joe-Boy's house. Now I will
tell you what I am going to
do, Father Gipsy. I shall take this piece of paper and
tack it to the tree by the tent door, and then I shall
write on it the names of every workman that helps us
build Joe-Boy's house. Isn't that a good way not to
forget our helpers?"
"There now!" said Mother Gipsy, laughing, "that will
help us to remember." Then they went into the tent to
tell Joe-Boy about it.
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