Author: Frances Trego Montgomery

Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com

Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 42

ISBN-13: 9781230085319

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...he was in this stupor, the janitor and another man carried him out into the back yard of the hospital, where they left him for dead, but the cool night air soon revived him, and jumping up, he ran out of the yard and down the road as fast as he could, for all he thought of now was to get as far away from the hospital as possible. CHAPTER XIII. BILLY AND THE WIDOW BROWN. Billy wandered around the rest of the night after running away from the hospital. He kept going more and more toward the suburbs until he came to a very, very high board fence--so high it could be looked over only from the second story window of a house. "What in the world can they be keeping in a yard back of that fence that they don't want any one to see. I'll trot around it and see if I can't find a knot hole to peep through." He trotted and trotted looking for a crack or knot hole but found none as the people who built the fence had plastered all the chinks between the boards and holes with strips of tar paper. "There must be something precious behind that fence for any one to fasten it up so tightly. But it only makes me the more determined than ever to sec what is there. If I can't see through any other way, I'll dig a hole and crawl under." "Baa-a, b-a-a, b-a-a--." "Well I never," exclaimed Billy. "If there isn't a nanny goat's voice. She must be imprisoned. Else why the high fence? But whoever built it can't know much of goats if he expected them to jump over that fence, for one might just as well try to jump over the moon. "Baa-a, b-a-a, b-a-a--." ' "There it goes again. I believe I will answer and ask what kind of a place it is inside. B-a-a, ...

Download or read book Billy Whiskers' Vacation written by Frances Trego Montgomery and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ...he was in this stupor, the janitor and another man carried him out into the back yard of the hospital, where they left him for dead, but the cool night air soon revived him, and jumping up, he ran out of the yard and down the road as fast as he could, for all he thought of now was to get as far away from the hospital as possible. CHAPTER XIII. BILLY AND THE WIDOW BROWN. Billy wandered around the rest of the night after running away from the hospital. He kept going more and more toward the suburbs until he came to a very, very high board fence--so high it could be looked over only from the second story window of a house. "What in the world can they be keeping in a yard back of that fence that they don't want any one to see. I'll trot around it and see if I can't find a knot hole to peep through." He trotted and trotted looking for a crack or knot hole but found none as the people who built the fence had plastered all the chinks between the boards and holes with strips of tar paper. "There must be something precious behind that fence for any one to fasten it up so tightly. But it only makes me the more determined than ever to sec what is there. If I can't see through any other way, I'll dig a hole and crawl under." "Baa-a, b-a-a, b-a-a--." "Well I never," exclaimed Billy. "If there isn't a nanny goat's voice. She must be imprisoned. Else why the high fence? But whoever built it can't know much of goats if he expected them to jump over that fence, for one might just as well try to jump over the moon. "Baa-a, b-a-a, b-a-a--." ' "There it goes again. I believe I will answer and ask what kind of a place it is inside. B-a-a, ...