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THE MERRYVALE BOYS
HALLOWE'EN
AT MERRYVALE
BY
ALICE HALE BURNETT
"FATHER BROWN'S INDIAN
TALE," ETC.
CHARLES F. LESTER
201-213 EAST 12th STREET NEW YORK
American Authors Publishing Co.
THE MERRYVALE BOYS
By ALICE HALE BURNETT
Six real stories for small boys, each complete in itself, telling aboutthe many interesting doings of "Toad" and "Chuck" Brown, and theirfriends, "Fat," "Reddy" and others.
The books are written so the boy may read and understand them and theaction faithfully portrays boy life in a small town.
"Toad" and "Reddy," by good fortune, each earn two tickets to thecircus, although they find watering elephants a harder task than it atfirst seemed. A jolly party of boys visit the circus.
Dad's story is followed by an unexpected visitor who at first startlesthen interests all of the little party gathered around the fireside.
Did you ever go to a picnic in a large farm wagon, filled with boys andgirls? Then did you catch a fine lot of trout and broil them before acamp-fire? "Toad" and "Reddy" did these very things and had a day longto be remembered.
Daddy Williams' Toy Shop is the center of interest to "Toad" and hisfriends long before Christmas arrives. They plan a surprise that bringsjoy to a poor family. The boys erect snow forts and the two sides have abattle royal.
"Toad's" grandmother invites him and "Reddy" to spend a month in thecountry. Their experiences at Sunnyside farm, with its horses, cows,pigs and chickens, are most entertainingly told, and they have the timeof their lives boating, swimming and fishing in the creek.
For many days the boys had been looking forward to the party to be heldat Toad Brown's house, but the evening finally arrived and a number ofnew games were played, although a few things happened which were n