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The Brickmason'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 Brickmason's Help
A
T LAST everything that was needed to build the house
had been hauled, and now it was time for the workmen to
begin building.
"What workman will you get first?" asked Mother Gipsy,
as they sat on a log in the moonlight, talking.
"A brickmason," said Father Gipsy, "because he is the
man who lays the foundation, and that is the very first
thing to be done on a house."
"Foundation," said Mother Gipsy, slowly, "what a great
long word!"
"Yes," said Father Gipsy, "that is the part of a house
that rests on the ground and holds the house up.
Sometimes it is made of stone, and sometimes it is made
of brick or something else very hard and strong.
Indeed, it should be the very strongest part of a
house, because one without a strong foundation, would
be sure to tumble down."
"Dear me!" said Mother Gipsy, "how dreadful! Let us
be very
sure to have the foundation to Joe-Boy's house made
very strong. I would not have it fall down on us for
anything."
Father Gipsy kissed the little frown away from her
eyebrows, and then he said:
"Do not be afraid, my dear, for ours shall be very
strong, and I shall find the best brickmason that can
be found—one who will do his very best work on
Joe-Boy's house."
And so he did, and the very next day four brickmasons
went to work on the foundation. They sifted sand and
mixed it with water and lime and made the mortar. Then
they took trowels, smoothed the mortar over the bricks
and placed them one above the other, pressing each one
firmly in place. All day they worked, until by and by
the strong brick wall was finished.
"Well," said Father Gipsy, "that looks like a strong
foundation, and we thank you very much, kind
brickmasons. To-morrow we should like to have you make
the chimneys to Joe-Boy's house, because you do such
good work."
The brickmasons went home to rest, very tired but very
happy. They were happy because they did good work, and
because Father Gipsy had given them money for building
the foundation to Joe-Boy's house.
"Now," they said, "we will take this money and buy
dresses and hats and shoes for our children to wear,
and flour and meal to make them bread to eat. If we did
not work and make money we could not buy any of these
things for them. We are glad Father Gipsy likes our
work, and will let us build the chimneys to the new
house."
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