Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
THE DOCTOR'S NEW BUGGY.
THE HAPPY HOME STORIES.
THE NEW BUGGY
BY AUNT HATTIE.
[MADELINE LESLIE]
"Be ye kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one
another."—Paul.
BOSTON:
PUBLISHED BY HENRY A. YOUNG & CO.,
24 CORNHILL.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1871, by
HENRY A. YOUNG & CO.,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.
LIST
OF VOLUMES IN
THE HAPPY HOME STORIES.
FOR GIRLS.
VOL. I. LITTLE FLYAWAY.
VOL. II. THE SPOILED PICTURE.
VOL. III. FLEDA'S CHILDHOOD.
VOL. IV. THE SINGING GIRL.
VOL. V. MOLLY AND THE WINE GLASS.
VOL. VI. THE TWINS.
LIST
OF VOLUMES IN
THE HAPPY HOME STORIES.
FOR BOYS.
VOL. I. DILIGENT DICK.
VOL. II. COUSIN WILLIE.
VOL. III. LAZY ROBERT.
VOL. IV. LITTLE FRITZ.
VOL. V. THE NEW BUGGY.
VOL. VI. BERTIE AND HIS SISTERS.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER II. WHAT HAPPENED NEXT
CHAPTER III. DANIEL AND HIS FATHER—A TROUBLED CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER V. THE DISTRACTED MOTHER
CHAPTER VIII. THE DOCTOR'S BILL
THE NEW BUGGY.
CHAPTER I.
THE TRUANT BOYS.
"YOU'LL catch it now!" shouted Ralph Lane, as he saw his schoolmatestealing through the garden to the back door of his father's barn.
"You'll catch it when your father finds you out! I wouldn't be you,Jimmy Dodge, for the best kite I ever saw."
Poor Jimmy looked very much as though he would like not to be himself,just at that moment. He had been doing wrong, and he knew it.
He had started for school, and had gone more than half way when he metDaniel Crawson, a merry boy, who invited, him to take a sail on thepond.
Daniel's father was a fisherman, and owned a small dory. Occasionallyhe gave his son liberty to go out in the boat when it was not in use;but this afternoon he had not done so, and supposed that Dan, as hecalled hi