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The Material for the 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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The Material for the House
"W
ELL," said Father Gipsy, "the next thing for
us to do, is to buy the things we need to build
Joe-Boy's house with. Just get a pencil and paper,
Mother Gipsy, and I will write them down as we think of
them. First, there must be brick for the chimneys and
for the foundation; and there must be sand to make the
mortar; and there must be glass for the windows, and
iron for gas and water pipes; and then there must be a
great lumber pile. It will
take ever so many planks to build Joe-Boy's house—broad
planks and narrow planks, thick planks and thin planks,
long planks and short planks, and all very strong."
"Yes," said Mother Gipsy, "our straight, tall forest
trees will give us all the planks we need—they, too,
will help to build the house."
So Father Gipsy wrote all the things down in his little
book and then went away to buy them.
For many days after that, the big wagons loaded down
with the lumber and brick and sand rolled down the big
road to the place where the house was to be built.
Mother Gipsy watched the things go by with a happy
heart, and sometimes she would take Joe-Boy in her arms
to watch the men unload the wagons.
It was then she would pat the tired horses on their
heads and stroke them very gently. That was the way she
said "Thank you" to them for helping to build Joe-Boy's
house. "For who would draw the heavy wagons loaded with
lumber and other things, were it not for you, kind
horses?" she said. Then, she would take Joe-Boy's soft
hand in hers, and show him how to say thank you,
too—just as she had done.
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