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Joe-Boy's House
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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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Joe-Boy's House
O
NE day Mother Gipsy said, "Do see here, Father Gipsy,
Joe-Boy has his eyes open to-day. They are large and
black like mine and merry and glad like yours. And he
is growing so fast! I think we shall have to stop
living in tents now, and build a real truly true house
to live in, just like what the town people have. If we
do not, I am afraid Joe-Boy will get cold and sick when
the winter time comes."
"Yes, yes," said Father Gipsy, "I have been thinking
about that very thing myself, but then, I knew how much
you loved our pretty gipsy tent here in the woods and I
thought you would not wish to leave it."
"Oh yes," said Mother Gipsy, "we both love our tent
home very much, but we love Joe-Boy more. When he grows
larger he will have to go to Kindergarten, you know,
and there is none in the woods. And when he gets to be
a big boy he will have to go to school and when he gets
to be a great big boy, why he will have to go to
college. So you see we will have to build a house in
the town for Joe-Boy if he is to grow into a strong,
wise man."
"That is true," said Father Gipsy, "but I can't build a
house all by myself, so I must find someone to help me,
and the new house will be ready for Joe-Boy when the
cold winter time comes."
"You can find plenty of helpers, I am sure," said
Mother Gipsy, "and we will pay them some of our money
for helping us work. First we must find an architect to
give us a plan for the house and then some carpenters
and stone cutters and brick masons to build it for us."
"How many rooms do you think we should have in the new
house?" said Father Gipsy.
"Not very many," said Mother Gipsy,—"let me see; a
kitchen, a dining room, a parlor, a bed room and a play
room for Joe-Boy, all his very own, so that when he
grows large enough to have toys and other things he
will have a nice place to keep them in. Then, of course
there must be a broad porch all around the house, for
when the weather is bright we shall stay out there a
great deal—close to the air and sunshine and the
beautiful, beautiful woods, that we love so much."
"All right," said Father Gipsy, "it shall be just as
you wish, and to-morrow I will find the workmen who are
to do the building—the very best ones that can be
found, because we want Joe-Boy to have a strong,
well-built house to live in."
Then Mother Gipsy smiled and Father Gipsy smiled, and I
am sure Joe-Boy would have smiled too, had he only
known how much they loved him. But he only closed his
pretty black eyes, nestled up close to Mother Gipsy's
heart, and went fast asleep.
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