Chapter I: Front Matter

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MRS. DIAZ’S WRITINGS.

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⁂_For sale by all Booksellers. Sent, postpaid, on receipt of price, by_

JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.,
CATHEDRAL BUILDING, WINTHROP SQUARE,
Boston.

THE

JIMMYJOHNS,

AND OTHER STORIES.

BY

MRS. A. M. DIAZ,

AUTHOR OF “THE WILLIAM HENRY LETTERS,” “LUCY MARIA,” ETC.

Illustrated.

BOSTON:
JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
(Late TICKNOR & FIELDS, and FIELDS, OSGOOD, & CO.)
1878.

COPYRIGHT, 1877, BY
JAMES R. OSGOOD & CO.
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY
RAND, AVERY, AND COMPANY,
117 FRANKLIN STREET,
BOSTON.

CONTENTS.

THE JIMMYJOHNS:— Page.

I. A Morning with the Jimmyjohns 11

II. The Sad Fate of “Polly Cologne” 18

III. An Account of the Jimmyjohns’ Little Affair
with the Gulls 26

IV. The Jimmyjohns’ Sailor-Suits 35

V. A Leaf from a Little Girl’s Diary 46

VI. A Little Girl’s Story 50

VII. The Bad Luck of Bubby Cryaway 57

VIII. What made Mr. Tompkins laugh 66

IX. Mr. Tompkins’s Small Story 76

FLOWERS WAKING UP 80

THE LITTLE PULLWINGER’S DREAM 85

HOW THE BARN CAME FROM JORULLO 95

A POTATO STORY WHICH BEGINS WITH A BEAN-POLE 107

THE WAY MRS. MACGARRET’S TEA-PARTY WAS BROKEN UP 110

GETTING UP IN THE WORLD 114

THE STORY OF FLORINDA 118

THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT 134

A LITTLE GUESS-STORY 147

THE LITTLE BEGGAR-GIRL 152

WIDE-AWAKE 169

REASONS WHY THE COW TURNED HER HEAD AWAY 173

TWO LITTLE ROGUES 179

THE BELATED BUTTERFLY 182

THE MAPLE-TREE’S CHILDREN 186

THE WHISPERER 189

A STRANGER IN PILGRIM-LAND, AND WHAT HE SAW 191

DRAMAS AND DIALOGUES:—

The Gypsies.—A May-Day Drama 205

A December Charade.—(Farewell.) 221

The Little Visitors.—A Play for Young Children 233

The Bird Dialogue 242

Shopping.—A Dialogue for the very Little Ones 250

May-Day Indoors; or, The Yotopski Family’s Rehearsal 255

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Page.

“HOW EASY SHE GOES!” 2

JOEY MOONBEAM, DOROTHY BEESWAX, BETSEY GINGER,
AND POLLY COLOGNE 22

THE JIMMYJOHNS AND THE GULLS 33

“THE LITTLE BOYS, HALF CRYING, HELD FAST BY THE
SIDES OF THE BOAT” 43

JOEY MOONBEAM’S NEW HAT 47

“OVER WENT THE BARREL, AND OVER WENT HE” 63

FLOWERS WAKING UP 80

THE BARREL-MAN LOOKING AT HIS POSSESSIONS 93

THE BARREL-MAN CUTS THE BRANCHES, AND THE OWNER COMPLAINS 97

THE HORSES AND THE OXEN APPEAR IN SIGHT 101

THE FOURTEEN HUNGRY MEN SIT AROUND THE TABLE 105

“A-SHAKING THEIR CORN-POPPERS OVER THE COALS” 135

THE CAT THAT CAUGHT THE RAT 137

THE DOG THAT WAS TOSSED 138

THE COW WITH THE CRUMPLED HORN 139

THE MAIDEN ALL FORLORN 140

THE MAN ALL TATTERED AND TORN 142

“GOOD-MORROW, SIR PRIEST! WILL YOU MARRY US TWO?” 145

THE LITTLE BEGGAR-GIRL 153

“NOW I’LL PULL UP; NOW I’M ALMOST UP” 171

“TAKE THIS WISP OF HAY” 174

“FOREFATHERS’ ROCK” 196

INDIAN DOLL 200

THE JIMMYJOHNS, AND OTHER STORIES.

THE JIMMYJOHNS.