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HE same Big Road that passed the little brown house
where Bobby and his mother and father
lived ran by the
His house was made of logs piled upon each other, with
plaster in the cracks to keep the wind out. There were
only two rooms in the house, with a wide, open hall
between them. The
The ox-wagon man said that his wife was a master hand with flowers. As for Johnny, he was a master hand with pets. He had a bantam hen, and a spotted calf, and the yellow dog whose name was Towser.
On the days when the
One evening Johnny and Towser spied the
That was almost sure to mean that it was something for Johnny.
"Oh, Daddy, what have you brought me?" called Johnny.
"Bow-wow!" barked Towser.
Both of them hurried down the road to meet the
"It's a present from the little fellow I've been
telling you about," called the
Johnny's fingers trembled so that he could scarcely
open the package, but at last he got the string off and
unfolded the paper. And there was the
He sat down on the doorstone in front of the log cabin and looked at every picture in the book.
Which page do you think he liked best? The one with Bobby's picture on it.